If you’re a hockey fan in the US or Canada, you know how frustrating it can be to follow your team. Games are blacked out locally, coverage is scattered across multiple platforms, and even national broadcasts don’t show every match live.
All you want is a simple way to watch the NHL — every game, every night — without restrictions.
Good news: there’s an easier way.
With DAZN UK and a VPN router using a UK residential IP, you can stream every NHL game live and on demand — free from regional blackouts or missing fixtures.
In North America, NHL broadcast rights are fragmented between:
Each broadcaster restricts games by location, so if your local station owns the rights, that match is blacked out on every other platform.
For devoted fans, it means juggling subscriptions — and still missing games.
Outside North America, DAZN UK now carries NHL.tv (NHL International Pass), giving fans complete, unrestricted access to the league.
With DAZN UK, you get:
One subscription. No fragmentation. No restrictions.
There is one catch for North American fans: DAZN is the exclusive home of NHL.TV in almost 200 countries, but not in the US, Canada or the Nordics. So to use it from there, you need to connect as if you’re in the UK — which is where a residential-IP router comes in.
DAZN’s catalogue changes depending on where you’re watching.
To unlock DAZN UK’s full NHL coverage, you need to appear to be connecting from the UK.
The problem? Most VPN apps use shared data-centre IPs that DAZN easily detects and blocks.
That's why the reliable approach is a VPN router pre-configured with a UK residential IP address.
Instead of paying for a national package plus a regional sports network — and still losing games to blackouts — DAZN UK’s NHL.TV gives you the whole league in one place: every regular-season game, the Stanley Cup Playoffs and the Final, home and away feeds, the NHL Network stream, and condensed replays. One subscription, no blackouts, and it works across every device in the house through the router.
No — DAZN’s NHL.TV is available in almost 200 countries but not in the US, Canada or the Nordics. Fans there reach DAZN UK’s coverage with a SmartHub VPN router (with a genuine UK residential IP).
Yes — DAZN is the exclusive international home of NHL.TV, carrying every regular-season game plus the Stanley Cup Playoffs and Final, live and on demand, with no regional blackouts.
Usually not — DAZN detects and blocks the shared data-centre IPs that mainstream VPN apps use. A UK residential IP looks like a genuine British home, so it works reliably.
A DAZN UK subscription with NHL.TV, plus a VPN router with a UK residential IP so your connection appears to be in the UK.
Blackouts and fragmented coverage shouldn’t come between you and your team.
With DAZN UK and a VPN router using a UK residential IP, you can:
