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jc17 said:
3 games in a night and the second starts at 9:52. Just garbage
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Neither team in Dallas v. Colorado is in the western time zone either. It's amazing to me how bad they are at basic scheduling. 3 Eastern Conference teams played yesterday. How could they not avoid that? A game randomly starts at 6:30 tomorrow. Which, I had no idea about until I just so happened to open up NHL.com looking for other examples of bad scheduling, and immediately found one.
 
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Krieger Bot said:
Neither team in Dallas v. Colorado is in the western time zone either. It's amazing to me how bad they are at basic scheduling. 3 Eastern Conference teams played yesterday. How could they not avoid that? A game randomly starts at 6:30 tomorrow. Which, I had no idea about until I just so happened to open up NHL.com looking for other examples of bad scheduling, and immediately found one.
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At least the home team is Mountain Time Zone, so it's only 7:52 local for them. Not the worst start time for the locals. My thing with playoff schedule is it should cater to the home team fans, so if you're playing a team two time zones away (which can't be avoided with how the Western Conference is set up), only the home teams fans who are packing the arena should matter in the schedule. Every home game should be either 7, 7:30, or (rarely) 8 PM local starts on weeknights. Yes, given the number of teams in Eastern/Central time zones this probably means 3 games on at the same time in the first round, but deal with it. You've got multiple TV partners with multiple channels + streaming options, and you've got RSNs showing games in the home markets anyways. This shouldn't be that hard.

What really grinds my gears is when they make central (or last night, TB/Fla) start games at 8:30 local...and then don't actually drop the puck until over 20 minutes later! There's way too much time between the listed start time and actual puck drop, and it's even worse when the listed start time is so damn late for the home fans!

I get that game dates are often dictated by arena availability, travel, etc. And they want to cater to their television partners who are showing the games. But they book 2.5 hour windows for games (which never finish that quickly)...and don't drop the puck for 10-20 minutes in those windows to begin with, which delays things further...

End rant.
 
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NotABadPeriod said:
At least the home team is Mountain Time Zone, so it's only 7:52 local for them. Not the worst start time for the locals. My thing with playoff schedule is it should cater to the home team fans, so if you're playing a team two time zones away (which can't be avoided with how the Western Conference is set up), only the home teams fans who are packing the arena should matter in the schedule. Every home game should be either 7, 7:30, or (rarely) 8 PM local starts on weeknights. Yes, given the number of teams in Eastern/Central time zones this probably means 3 games on at the same time in the first round, but deal with it. You've got multiple TV partners with multiple channels + streaming options, and you've got RSNs showing games in the home markets anyways. This shouldn't be that hard.

What really grinds my gears is when they make central (or last night, TB/Fla) start games at 8:30 local...and then don't actually drop the puck until over 20 minutes later! There's way too much time between the listed start time and actual puck drop, and it's even worse when the listed start time is so damn late for the home fans!

I get that game dates are often dictated by arena availability, travel, etc. And they want to cater to their television partners who are showing the games. But they book 2.5 hour windows for games (which never finish that quickly)...and don't drop the puck for 10-20 minutes in those windows to begin with, which delays things further...

End rant.
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If a game is a 7PM start then they should do the anthems at 650. No need for them to be part of the TV broadcast.
 
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Gras said:
If a game is a 7PM start then they should do the anthems at 650. No need for them to be part of the TV broadcast.
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Yea but how are you gonna feel patriotic otherwise?

Anthems are dumb unless it’s played between two national teams. Nobody cares about the anthems between the Jets and Blues, or Oilers and Kings, or Habs and Caps. Those teams aren’t playing for the country they’re in. They’re playing to advance to try to win the cup. It’s not a Canada vs. US game. It’s just a team that happens to be located in a country.
 
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MarkusKetterer said:
Yea but how are you gonna feel patriotic otherwise?

Anthems are dumb unless it’s played between two national teams. Nobody cares about the anthems between the Jets and Blues, or Oilers and Kings, or Habs and Caps. Those teams aren’t playing for the country they’re in. They’re playing to advance to try to win the cup. It’s not a Canada vs. US game. It’s just a team that happens to be located in a country.
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It's like you totally miss the point of why anthems are played *hint* It's not Patriotism
 
MarkusKetterer said:
Yea but how are you gonna feel patriotic otherwise?

Anthems are dumb unless it’s played between two national teams. Nobody cares about the anthems between the Jets and Blues, or Oilers and Kings, or Habs and Caps. Those teams aren’t playing for the country they’re in. They’re playing to advance to try to win the cup. It’s not a Canada vs. US game. It’s just a team that happens to be located in a country.
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Ive been advocating for years to drop the anthems from sporting events.
Beerz said:
It's like you totally miss the point of why anthems are played *hint* It's not Patriotism
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Propaganda
 
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In hockey you can have two top-5 players in the NHL and not make it out of the first round. It’s truly a team sport.
 
Oilers fans still convinced they don’t miss McLeod (and Halloway and Foegele of course) as they’ve gotten thumped a combined 12-2 if not for McDavid going god mode because he was mad he got punched
 
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MOGlLNY said:
Oilers fans still convinced they don’t miss McLeod (and Halloway and Foegele of course) as they’ve gotten thumped a combined 12-2 if not for McDavid going god mode because he was mad he got punched
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Hey, good thing they signed Jeff Skinner and Viktor Arvidsson with all that money they saved on McLeod. And then lose Halloway and Broberg. Good thing, right?


Right?

Skinner being out of the lineup last night was probably a solid defensive move considering he was on for three straight Kings goals in Game 1 (and yes, did pick up a point later).
 
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Chainshot said:
Hey, good thing they signed Jeff Skinner and Viktor Arvidsson with all that money they saved on McLeod. And then lose Halloway and Broberg. Good thing, right?


Right?

Skinner being out of the lineup last night was probably a solid defensive move considering he was on for three straight Kings goals in Game 1 (and yes, did pick up a point later).
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It's crazy they can watch what happened last night and still think they don't need a McLeod type player in their lineup. Even if he isn't a "tough" player.
 
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MOGlLNY said:
It's crazy they can watch what happened last night and still think they don't need a McLeod type player in their lineup. Even if he isn't a "tough" player.
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They’ve gotten so much slower in their depth. It would not surprise me if the kings knocked them off after watching part of game one annd all of game two.
 
How is Forsberg…I mean…Savoie doing for them though? Surely given the way he was perceived he’s making an NHL impact and not spending his draft plus three season in the AHL with as many goals as say…a Noah Ostlund who played 20 less games? Right?
 
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MOGlLNY said:
Oilers fans still convinced they don’t miss McLeod (and Halloway and Foegele of course) as they’ve gotten thumped a combined 12-2 if not for McDavid going god mode because he was mad he got punched
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I used to have so much hatred against Sabres rivals…but since we don’t have rivals anymore, all of my hatred is pointed at the Oilers, because of their belligerent fans on here.

I’ve been having fun lurking through their game day/post game threads :)
 
Doug Prishpreed said:
That makes even less sense. Has nothing to do with hockey.

If they are honoring anything, it should be hockey related. Otherwise, honoring John Candy and Bill Murray would make more sense than honoring a group of people because took a job with the government.
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Hi Doug! Always great seeing your well thought out opinions!
 
sabremike said:
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~31 years ago I shouted out, holy shit that was Ray Bourque he did that to?!?!

In the heat of the moment, I don't think I paid attention to a single detail other than it being Brad May and RJ's call, jumping and screaming hysterically while watching with high school buddies. I remember not really paying attention to the finer details of that replay until a year or so later :laugh:
 
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