“Now you’re asking fans to get a cable subscription and also get a streaming subscription to one of several different streaming services,” Ourand says. “It’s becoming costly and confusing, especially for older people who just don’t know how to subscribe.”
Alex Timmons, a 37-year-old baseball coach from Pasedena, California, says it’s taking his father longer to get used to watching hockey on streaming because he’s unfamiliar with the technology. He helped his dad by buying him an Amazon Fire TV Stick.