Both attempting to chase down Boston for the No. 1 seed in the East, the Florida Panthers and New York Rangers meet for a huge showdown today at Madison Square Garden.
The game is starting very soon, at 8:00 p.m. ET, and will be televised nationally on ABC in the United States. If you don’t have cable, though, there are still a bevy of different ways you can watch the game streaming live online.
Among the four live-TV streaming services that include ABC in their channel packages, three of them come with a free trial: Fubo (“Pro” channel plan), DirecTV Stream (“Entertainment” channel plan or above) and YouTube TV (“Base Plan”). The Fubo free trial lasts for seven days, while the other two will each give you five days for free.
All of these have different pros and cons as long-term options, but if you simply want to sign up, watch the Panthers vs Rangers and then cancel without paying anything, any of them will work just fine.
Hulu + Live TV is the other streaming service that carries ABC, but it doesn’t have a free trial and will cost you $77 per month right away.
The Panthers vs Rangers game will also stream on ESPN+. There’s no free trial, but if we’re talking long-term options, ESPN+ is undoubtedly the best choice for NHL fans.
Not only does ESPN+ include every out-of-market NHL game (and even some nationally televised games, such as as this one), but it also has college hockey (including tonight’s anticipated Hockey East Tournament final), other live sports, documentaries, original shows and more.
All of that, and it will cost you just $11 per month or $110 for the year. Or you can get a bundle of ESPN+, Hulu and Disney+ for $15 per month. Even if you don’t care about any of the other content, the dozens of NHL games every week alone makes that a very good price.
A virtual private network (VPN) hides your IP address and connects you to a digital server in another country of your choosing. You can then browse online as if you were actually in that country, bypassing geo-locks and streaming content that would otherwise be blocked by location.
Though there are a lot of good VPN’s out there (we’ve ranked the 18 best VPN services), we would go with NordVPN. It’s compatible with Fubo, DirecTV Stream, YouTube TV and ESPN+, plus it comes with a 30-day money-back guarantee so you can try it out risk-free.
Some of the best shots in Grok Imagine’s AI-made Odyssey don’t contain actors. Ancient landscapes stretch into the distance. Close-ups of grimy hands suggest people who have touched something rougher than a keyboard. For a few seconds, the illusion holds.
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YouTube videos could soon look better without eating quite so much data, right? Thankfully, the platform plans to introduce a new video format called AV2 on its web player in early 2027, promising more efficient streaming and potentially fewer playback hiccups on slower internet connections. The big headline is a roughly 30% improvement in compression efficiency over AV1, YouTube's existing video format. That doesn't guarantee every video will use 30% less data, but it could make streaming a little easier on both internet connections and data allowances.
What is AV2, and why should viewers care?
YouTube is changing how its Home page works, giving viewers more control over what shows up there and making some of the app’s most-used sections easier to reach. Custom Feeds are now replacing the existing topic chips for eligible users, while YouTube is also testing a redesigned top bar on mobile that moves Subscriptions closer to the Home feed.
YouTube first started experimenting with Custom Feeds earlier this year, letting you type out what you wanted to watch and turning that request into its own stream of recommendations. Now, the feature is starting to look less like a side experiment and more like something YouTube actually wants people to use as part of their everyday Home page.