Used to be before Rogers took over, if you subscribed to RDS, you could watch Vos Canadiens games, no matter where you lived in Canada.  Many suppliers offered a french-language package which included RDS.  They still do, but now with Rogers, even if you pay the extra for the french-language package, game's blacked out.

To repeat, even if you pay for it, Rogers won't let you watch it.

Rogers wants you to buy their centre ice package, and whoever's in charge of enforcing Canada's embarrassingly-weak competition laws, snoozers from them.

I mean, mod tech, there are alternatives, but that's not the point.