Hockey fans irate as Peacock fails to show first fight of Winter Olympics with issues mounting for streamer

UK Daily Mail ^ | 02/15/2026 | Jake Fenner

[DFG]

NBC's streaming service Peacock has experienced bugs and errors throughout its coverage of the Winter Olympics in Milan and Cortina. Perhaps the biggest and most inconvenient one has been when the broadcasts randomly cut to advertisements in the midst of the action.

While this issue has been prevalent throughout the games, it's biggest offense came during Sunday morning's coverage of the men's hockey match between Canada and France.

Canada, the heavy favorites for the gold medal, was up 10-2 in a demolition of Les Blues when the streamer suddenly cut to a commercial break in the middle of the action. By the time the broadcast resumed, Canadian enforcer Tom Wilson had discarded his gloves and was being skated to the penalty box.

It turns out, while advertisements were playing, Wilson got into the first fight of these Winter Games with French defenseman Pierre Crinon.

Fighting in Olympic hockey results in an automatic ejection, which means this may have been the only altercation fans will see in the entire tournament.

But, thanks to the error, the only way fans watching on the streaming service knew what happened came from a brief replay of the melee.

After Crinon was caught elbowing Canadian star Nathan MacKinnon up high, Wilson delivered a heavy hit on the Frenchman, leading to a brief exchange of punches.

Video from a Czechia journalist showed the action spilling over as Wilson appeared to go back at Crinon - with the two continuing to fight inside of the goal crease before being separated.

Cameras caught Wilson walking down the tunnel to the locker room as a result of his ejection.

[MinorityRepublican]

I watch almost nothing including these games. I read about it here and sometimes watch some video clips

You can watch it on NBC for free but it's mostly commercials and talking heads.

They are not showing the actual Games.

Apparently they are doing tha t on Peacock. But why should we have to pay for that?

[GreenHornet]

RODNEY DANGERFIELD: “The other night I was watching the fights when a hockey game broke out.”

[spincaster]

Are the Olympics going on?

[trebb]

I pay for it because it has some series that my wife likes - and the bottom-end Netflix that my phone company pays for has ads too - ads keep the cost down.

That said, as of late, Peacock seems to be having some issues - like maybe it’s being overloaded. When I bring the app up, I have to wait about 10 seconds before navigating because it is unresponsive...like maybe it’s not fully loaded and ready to go even though the screen looks right.