Winnipeg Jets fans are saying goodbye to the TSN Jets service, and hello to TSN3 as the new home of a package of 60 annual regional NHL games featuring the Winnipeg franchise.

As part of a 10-year deal with True North Sports & Entertainment, TSN two years ago launched a regional TV service to broadcast around 60 regional regular season and pre-season games each season to fans in Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Nunavut, the Northwest Territories and parts of Northwestern Ontario on TSN Jets.

But TSN expanding its lineup to five national feeds has now shifted the regional Jets games to TSN3, airing them in the same broadcast region, which includes Kenora, Dryden and Thunder Bay in Ontario.

TSN, faced with Sportsnet-parent Rogers Communications inking a blockbuster national TV rights deal with the NHL from this season, is also to air regional Toronto Maple Leaf and Ottawa Senators games.

TSN will air 26 Leafs games this coming season on TSN4 in the Toronto franchise’s broadcast region, up from 17 games last season.

Rival Sportsnet on Monday said it will air 40 national and 16 regional Toronto Maple Leafs broadcasts this coming season.

The regional Leafs games will air on Sportsnet Ontario. Nationally, Rogers will offer 24 Hockey Night in Canada broadcasts on Saturday nights involving the Leafs, and another 12 appearances by the Toronto team on Scotiabank Wednesday Night Hockey telecasts.

TSN will also air a package of 53 Senators games in the Ottawa team’s designated broadcast region on TSN5.

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