If you want to watch Minnesota Wild games this season, you’ll have a few hoops to jump through.

That’s the story for many NHL and NBA franchises this season, as the ripple effects of the demise of Main Street Sports Group and FanDuel Sports Network continue to be felt.

For the Wild, it works like this:

Wild+ will televise 67 games, the franchise’s new local network. If you live within the team’s local broadcast territory, Prime Video is the exclusive streaming distributor. Wild+ will cost you $19.99/month or $99.99/year and is separate from a Prime membership. Fubo subscribers in the Wild’s local market also get Wild+ as an alternative.

KSTP-TV will also broadcast 10 Wild+ games for free.

Beyond that, the team has 17 nationally televised games scheduled across ABC, ESPN, TNT, and ESPN+/Disney+/Hulu, so you’ll need to sign up for cable and/or several streaming services to catch them all.

We’ve heard of crazier subscription demands for die-hard completists, but it’s still a pain in the butt, especially for those used to finding games the old-fashioned way or who don’t want to spend hundreds of dollars to watch their beloved hockey team.

Fox 9 KMSP’s Lori Fisher, Justin Gaard, and Pierre Noujaim voiced those frustrations during a recent episode of the talk show Enough Said, venting about how annoying the whole setup is as the Wild head out on the road.

@fox9mnWatching the Wild shouldn’t require a scavenger hunt through streaming subscriptions. The Enough Said crew has some thoughts on just how expensive it’s getting to simply watch the game.♬ original sound – FOX 9 | KMSP

“You know what would be great?” asked Fox 9 sports anchor Noujaim. “If I could watch this freaking team.

“What channel is it on? Oh, it’s on Amazon? Oh, I already spend $14,000 on cable and other streaming services. I got to pay another $20 a month to watch this team? Maybe Fox9 should [foot] the bill for that.”

“And if you’re Amazon Prime members, that still doesn’t mean you can watch,” replied Gaard, a Fox 9 contributor and Minnesota Golden Gophers football sideline reporter and host. “That’s the best part. So you’re also paying $14,000 a year on Amazon stuff, and you still can’t watch it. I know. [Timberwolves] are in the same boat.”

Awful Announcing’s Manny Soloway ranked every NFL franchise’s local broadcast accessibility this season, placing the Wild in the middle at No. 17.

“The Minnesota Wild don’t have a lot going for them,” Soloway wrote. “They have an extremely high 17 nationally televised games (the max is 18) and only two games over-the-air (their website says they have more local games planned). But the big problem is the Wild’s current cable deal. They only have agreements with two cable providers: Spectrum and FuboTV. If you have any other cable carriers, you will have to spend $100 for the Wild’s Prime Video direct-to-consumer add-on. A middle-of-the-road three streaming exclusives helps the team from moving higher on this list. Hopefully, better cable carriage and more over-the-air games are in the works, because the current situation for Wild fans is subpar.”

The NBA’s Timberwolves have a similar, though slightly less convoluted, setup, with games on DAZN, KARE11, ESPN, NBC, Peacock, ABC, Prime Video, and NBA TV.