Discovery and TV5 will no longer show KHL games.
Discovery Finland announces that KHL’s television in Finland will end immediately.
Discovery has KHL’s television rights in Finland. The playoffs for the Russian-led puck league are set to begin in March.
Jokers informed on Friday that it will withdraw from the KHL playoffs. The Jokers were to play in the opening round of the playoffs against Spartak Moscow.
The Finnish Hockey Association, for its part, announced on Friday that it would remove lion shirts and championship pennants from the roof of the Russian-owned Hartwall arena to show support for Ukraine, which is the target of large-scale military operations in Russia.
KHL’s playoffs will not be shown in Finland. AOP