You can sign up to a VPN perfectly legally, there is no legal situation here.
Edit: I'm just trying to help out people that can't make the games. My NBC Gold account is also perfectly legal, I just get to see games at 3pm in the UK, but it is legal.
I subscribe to NBC Gold and get all the games that are not shown on BT. So yesterday I had to trawl for a stream. So I plugged into an NY IP and found SportsNet, Canadian channel. The stream was fantastic, not once did it buffer and it was HD. I didn't go yesterday for family reasons, but was...