Je dois aimer le calendrier des séries éliminatoires
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Je dois aimer le calendrier des séries éliminatoires
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I think hockey is the worst of the major sports at making themselves available to fans
This is why the league isn’t growing as it should. Baseball has a product problem. Hockey is lucky, their product is great! They just can’t help themselves from limiting their own exposure.
I mean we have an entire Sunday just for football. Why can’t hockey be spread out a bit
I mean to be fair it’s Saturday. Most people aren’t going to be sitting in front of their tv all day. They’ll watch their team but I wouldn’t be watching Leafs/Lightning if it were on at like 4pm.
And FFS they wait until Thursday to set the time for the LAK / EDM game, so if you have a life it’s hard to plan…
Can’t wait for the Sunday night game 7, 9:30 Eastern, on a day with only two games 🙄
Put them on a bunch of different channels so that people without a cable subscription can’t watch any (legally)
no team wants that early afternoon slot
Personally I’m preferring it the way it is today because I am not available to sit down and watch hockey for the first half of the day
No idea what you guys in the east are complaining about. Hockey starts at 4pm for me here 🙂
for me the games go 5:00, 5:30 7:00, 7:30 on weekdays and I personally think it works well
I would imagine most teams would rather play the most important games of a playoff series at night. Many players are routine oriented and having games during the day throws that off.
Sucks for the fans, but I understand it from a player perspective.
Most players say they don’t like day games (Throws their routine off). So the nhl tries to keep the start times later, especially playoffs. It’d be great for us fans but getting the best out of the players is more important.
I don’t think Gary Bettman is scheduling hockey games. There’s a lot that goes into and the venues might not even be available earlier in the day. But I agree with the overall sentiment that the NHL makes hockey less accessible.
Two teams in the central time zone starting at 8:50 is fucking ludicrous.
There was a 7:30 game on either TBS or TNT that had no pre game just started at 7:30 with puck drop around 7:40. They had Con Air playing until 7:30. It’s ridiculous how little ESPN cares about having the NHL.
Let’s make everybody buy three different cable packages so they can watch all three games also! @nhl is a fkn joke for that this season
On the east coast and was really hoping for a mid-afternoon local start for the Avs or Oilers, and not 9:30 on a Sunday night… which turns into 6am hockey for me.
I understand why they have weird times, for players game day is a whole morning to night ritual. I remember watching a “vlog” from some player from the jets iirc and he had a laid out schedule that was followed to a T, workout from this time to this time take a nap from 3-5 etc etc. making games start at say noon would throw off that whole routine and mess with players mental prep. Hockey players are often superstitious and have their weird rituals and prep they do every night and it helps them mentally prepare and get in the right mindset to perform well. It sucks for us but for the players a game is kept at the same local time so they can do their routines as usual.
The kings oilers game 5 was Tuesday, game 6 is Saturday an inexplicable 2 day delay.
Just makes zero sense.
I don’t think Bettman is the one in charge of game scheduling, lol.
Why is it so difficult to watch a fucking hockey game?? I really don’t understand what’s going in with the NHL’s broadcasting deals…
I mean it could be worse….you’ve got 3 games that start at 7, 8 and 10 est so only one game overlaps (unless there’s OT).