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What are they doing with these start times. Canada plays at 2PM local time and Sweden Finland play at 6PM local time for the semi-finals?!

Why have the home team play a Friday afternoon start? Also the Sweden vs Finland game will start at 2AM Sweden time and 3AM Finland time so that game would be better timed to start in the early slot for their fans watching in their home countries.
 
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Regardless of weekdays home team usually plays in the 1st semi-final so they would have more rest before final which is on the following day.

Of course if home team needs to make final to that happen.
 
Middle of summer
People on holidays
Not hockey season
Hockey Canada Bullshit

I haven't watched one second of hockey this summer. Just not feeling it and I'm always out and about doing something and soaking in the summer while it's here.
 
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Mikeshane said:
What are they doing with these start times. Canada plays at 2PM local time and Sweden Finland play at 6PM local time for the semi-finals?!

Why have the home team play a Friday afternoon start? Also the Sweden vs Finland game will start at 2AM Sweden time and 3AM Finland time so that game would be better timed to start in the early slot for their fans watching in their home countries.
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And the US played 3 of their first 4 games after 9 PM local time in the Eastern and Central time zones. I considered getting the NHL Network just to watch this tournament but after seeing the schedule I decided that the Youtube highlights would suffice. Plus, is the Athletic even covering the tournament? Pronman only tweets the players of the game. I could do that. Hell, I get better coverage on here than I do from that paid service with actual reporters that are supposed to cover NHL prospects.
 
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Sdrawkcab321 said:
Move it to Toronto New York or Vegas. No one is heading up to Edmonton just for the juniors.
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Toronto doesn’t really support junior hockey, they folded and moved all their teams.
They had to share with Montreal last time they had WJC.
 
Kaners BAC said:
And the US played 3 of their first 4 games after 9 PM local time in the Eastern and Central time zones. I considered getting the NHL Network just to watch this tournament but after seeing the schedule I decided that the Youtube highlights would suffice. Plus, is the Athletic even covering the tournament? Pronman only tweets the players of the game. I could do that. Hell, I get better coverage on here than I do from that paid service with actual reporters that are supposed to cover NHL prospects.
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The Athletic is clearly going out of its way to not cover the tournament, along the same lines as TSN barely promoting it. I think that we can all agree that The Athletic, to which people subscribe in part for hockey coverage, is taking a heroic stance.
 
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In Denmark the games would have been packed with "happy in the hat" Danes. Great crowd! And there would be Swedes and Finns and Germans and Czechs , etc.
 
And whyyyyyyy Send Sweden-Finland 2at night. Smart...
But we must give the uninterested Canadian market what they want.
 
Big Phil said:
I'll avoid the ridiculous idea that this beloved tournament was cancelled at Christmas time. If people are like me, they can't get into it for many reasons. Although I am sure it will be exciting come Christmas again.

But let's isolate one of them right now. How can you take a tournament seriously if Russia isn't there? I'm sorry, I can't do it. The last legitimate game at the WJC was the 2020 gold medal game between Canada and Russia and it was spectacular. They can't play this thing without the Russians.
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Well you better get used to it because I don't see Russia cleaning up it's act and all team sports federation will be keeping them on the outside looking in and rightly so, their actions as a country is demonstrably evil right now.
 
Melrose Munch said:
I don't disagree with any of this, but the host of the tournament was directly involved in multiple assaults. They haven't received a punishment from the IIHF yet.

Hockey Canada issue isn't ongoing?
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Are you equating the bungling of an investigation with the death of thousands of Ukrainian civilians?

There are levels of bad acts and there are levels of responses. Not everything results in the death penalty.
 
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Big Phil said:
I'll avoid the ridiculous idea that this beloved tournament was cancelled at Christmas time. If people are like me, they can't get into it for many reasons. Although I am sure it will be exciting come Christmas again.

But let's isolate one of them right now. How can you take a tournament seriously if Russia isn't there? I'm sorry, I can't do it. The last legitimate game at the WJC was the 2020 gold medal game between Canada and Russia and it was spectacular. They can't play this thing without the Russians.
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Yes they can, and deservedly so.
 
Melrose Munch said:
I don't disagree with any of this, but the host of the tournament was directly involved in multiple assaults. They haven't received a punishment from the IIHF yet.

Hockey Canada issue isn't ongoing?
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The Scale of the issues are oceans apart. They can't be compared. HC will have consequences. The Government pulled funding, Advertising backed down from supporting, the Board will likely be completely replaced and they may be placed under government oversight.
 
I can't even be bothered to watch most games on tv.
Its summer time. Really not that interested in spending 2-1/2 hours watching a hockey game... and I'm certainly not interested in spending $100+ to do it in person.
 
Rubi said:
I can't even be bothered to watch most games on tv.
Its summer time. Really not that interested in spending 2-1/2 hours watching a hockey game... and I'm certainly not interested in spending $100+ to do it in person.
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I gotta be honest I never understood this "It's Xtime" mentality. Who cares what time of year it is? Are you a fan or not? If you are sitting around watching tv why would you limit yourself over some arbitrary thing?

If you never watch it or are on vacation or whatever, I get it. But if you otherwise would be watching hockey but refuse because of something so stupid (imo) you probably aren't that big of a fan of the tournament / sport as you let on. And that's ok.
 
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