HELSINKI, FINLAND – The news has literally just broken on Twitter with the IIHF announcing that all of the games from the 2012 Ice Hockey World Championships will be streamed live via YouTube.
In a move that resembles the KHL’s strategy of showing games free of charge on YouTube, is bound to attract more fans to look at the games and watch the videos. However, it is still expected that the IIHF will offer paid for packages for the games where you can buy rights to watch the games of your chosen team.
However, the offer is not available to all as some countries have been geo-blocked. The list of Geo-Blocked countries includes: Belarus, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Russia, Sweden, Ukraine and the USA.
The YouTube channel can be found at: www.youtube.com/icehockey .
The schedule for the games is available by clicking here .
Please note that the game times are in Swedish and Finnish times respectively.
Contact the author: janne.virtanen@prohockeynews.com
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