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It is getting past the point of me being able to afford satellite TV anymore or cable for that matter. Which streaming platform would i:nclude most basic channels, including NHL hockey games? I basically only watch the Food Network BBC Earth , Smithsonian channel and live NHL hockey games.

Definitely Discovery plus. It has The Food Network channels on it.  
A lot of these services have free trials to start with too.

If you order frequently through Amazon, having the Amazon Prime service is just a perk of paying a nominal fee for free shipping from many vendors. Add to that a plethora of FREE streaming services such as Tubi, Plex, CircleTV, Samsung TV (I love it for the NHRA coverage), Pluto, AxsTV and FAWESOME tv and you'll wonder why you wasted money on cable packages.

thinking, if you asked ten people you would get ten different answers.

Your probably right about the ten different answers. Was curious to see if there would be some that were more popular than others. So many different options now.

You're right about that!  
 
When we cut cable 15 or so years ago, we had NO paid services originally. We just watched over-the-air *back when that was still a thing). We found we watched lots of YouTube videos on our laptop, so we bought a Roku box so we could cast to the TV.  
 
Today, we watch quite a bit of free TV (Roku channel is actually my favourite), and we permit ourselves to have 2 paid services. We currently have Disney+ and Netflix. If we want something else, we have to drop one of the others. We also splurge on a month or two of TSN during the Grey Cup playoffs.  
 
So my suggestion would be to cut everything, and start with free stuff. Then, add things as you find you miss then. You might find you will miss less than you think! And consider swapping/caps. There are no barriers to signup/dropping services, so you can subscribe to one service, binge that one series you want, then cancel and move on.  
 
Good luck!