Minnesota Wild Announce Another New Way To Watch Games This Season

If you're a Minnesota Wild fan, I'm sure you've been at least casually following what the team is doing to televise games starting with the upcoming 2026-2027 NHL season.

The long-time television home of the Minnesota Twins, Timberwolves, Wild, and Lynx officially shut down their Minnesota operations earlier this year. This left a lot of questions for Minnesota sports fans.

While the Minnesota Twins had already left Fanduel Sports Network North and worked with Major League Baseball to produce their own TV broadcasts, the Wild, Wolves, and Lynx all rode things out with Fanduel until the end of the 2025-2026 season.

That left teams the summer to figure out their plans before the Wolves and Wild seasons got going this fall.

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Both the Wolves and Wild announced they would be pivoting to streaming viewing options, leaving cable subscribers wondering if they need to add another service.

The Timberwolves, who have yet to make any other announcements, will only have games on the streaming service DAZN, except for any nationally televised primetime games. The cost for that is either $19.99 per month or $119.99 for a season pass, with "ultimate" access options for $24.99 monthly or $139.99 for a season pass.

The Wild, on the other hand, opted for a partnership with Amazon's Prime Video streaming service. Through the Prime Video app, you will be able to watch games for $19.99/month or $99.99 for an annual subscription. Similar to the Wolves, you'd need a subscription to watch all games except for any nationally televised games on other networks. You don't need to pay for Amazon's Prime service to watch games, but you do need a free account in order to subscribe and watch the Wild's games.

In that initial announcement, the Minnesota Wild did say that fans will be able to watch games on a lot of platforms, "including Prime Video, cable, satellite, and over-the-air television".

Left out of the details in that initial announcement was where you'll be able to find Wild games outside of the Prime Video app. The reasoning seemed to be that the team was still working out details with providers.

Earlier today (September 23), the Minnesota Wild announced their first cable TV partner, Spectrum.

This appears to be shaping up much like the deal the Minnesota Twins have worked out with individual cable and satellite providers, where they will provide a dedicated channel for games and content.

In addition, select games will be made available for free on over-the-air broadcasts via other partnerships the team works out with stations around the region.

We're still waiting on announcements for additional cable & satellite partners as well as what games will be broadcast over-the-air and what stations will carry those games, but with the season getting going at the beginning of October, I'd imagine we'll be seeing more announcements coming soon.