The Anaheim Ducks are heading into the 2026-27 season with a new streaming home, and the setup will look familiar in one big way: most of their games will still be available locally for free.
According to the NHL’s announcement on Wednesday, the Ducks are one of six teams joining a multiyear agreement that makes Prime Video the exclusive streaming home for their in-market games. Anaheim is being grouped with the Carolina Hurricanes, Columbus Blue Jackets, Dallas Stars, Minnesota Wild and another team in the new deal. For the Ducks, it marks a shift after a two-year run with the now-dissolved Victory+ service.
The Ducks will air 65 of their 84 games free over the air on FOX 11 and KCOP-13, which is roughly the same number they had last season. Prime Video will carry those same games as well as 12 more that will only be available to viewers with an Amazon Prime membership. The other seven games will be handled by one of the NHL’s national rights holders.
Ducks president Aaron Teats said the team wanted to keep access broad across its local market. “It was critical to provide our fans in our entire television market with a similar model to have Ducks games available via stream or over-the-air television,” Teats said in a statement. “It remains a significant organizational priority for all Ducks fans within our region to have the opportunity to watch Ducks games.”
There is one major difference from the Victory+ arrangement: fans who want to watch the Prime-only games and do not already have a Prime Video subscription will have to buy one. There will not be any extra charge beyond that subscription to watch the games.
The Ducks also will not have rinkside reporter Aly Lozoff as part of their broadcasts anymore. Lozoff, who joined Anaheim for the 2019-20 season, said on her X and Instagram accounts that the team told her it was moving on.
Victory+, which had shown Ducks games for free inside the market, also carried Stars games and streamed the NWSL, Western Hockey League junior games and Texas high school football. But the service officially shut down on Monday after missing payments owed to the Ducks and Major League Baseball’s Texas Rangers. Multiple reports in July said the Ducks had already decided to leave Victory+ with two years still left on the contract.
Fans in the Ducks’ regional territory, which includes eight Southern California counties and Hawaii, will be able to stream the games at home or on mobile devices. Viewers outside the market can still watch through NHL Center Ice or ESPN+.
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