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chickendinner
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chickendinner
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Jets game times
5/6/2018 at 4:22 PM

What’s with the 8:30 game times with Jets and Predators? Really inconvenient for those who work early mornings. Who benefits from this time slot?
Getty
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Getty
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Benefit.
5/6/2018 at 4:44 PM

Not a big deal. But Gary Bettman and NHL benefits from it.
MDG
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MDG
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We'll,
5/6/2018 at 7:23 PM

the Capitals & Penguins play at 6pm so both games are televised; anyone wanting to watch both games can do so. Don't know how Bettman benefits from these times ????!?
nicemoustache
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nicemoustache
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Advertising
5/6/2018 at 8:40 PM

I think it’s the NHL bowing to the advertising dollar. They know that there are many people that would watch both games, therefore exposing themselves to twice the advertising. That’s what drives all entertainment events on television, not just hockey. The actual cost of an event ticket is a very small part of the money that entertainment generates. It’s the companies that advertise during a particular event that dictate when it will be aired, especially live entertainment. Prime time = more $$$
Trevor

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Trevor
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5/7/2018 at 12:48 AM

It has more to do with where populations are located. They want to maximize eyeballs on screens, which maximizes eyeballs on advertisements as well. And when you’ve got Pittsburgh vs Washington or Winnipeg vs Nashville, it’s a no brainer which gets prime time viewing on the east coast.

If Vegas makes the cup final, their home games will likely start at 5-5:30pm local. Just checked on the 2012 cup finals when LA beat New Jersey, games in LA we’re starting around 5:20pm local, done around 7:30-8:00. That’s 8:20 to 11:00 on the eastern seaboard.

Baseball is even worse. There’s lots of daytime playoff games, especially in the first round. When the Jays were in the playoffs 2015 and 2016, all their ALDS games were afternoon games, because more people would rather watch the Yankees or Red Sox in prime time than the Jays.
fomo
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fomo
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Im sure you have stayed up later
5/7/2018 at 12:55 PM

for much less important things. Record it and watch it the next day or be tired. I'm going with the be tired.
Adam

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Adam
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Game times
5/7/2018 at 1:51 PM

Unfortunately even with all of the firepower and all of the US born players on roster, Jets aren't exactly what you'd call a big ticket in the US and Nashville is a small market itself. The networks like them some Crosby vs Ovechkin.
Even in Canada, right after the Jets won their last game the front page headline on Sportsnet's site was Raptors for a while.

I tend to look at it through the lens of us being lucky to have a team in Manitoba and doubly lucky to have one with the makeup of this year's team thats capable of some pretty special things. I make it work even if it means staying up an extra hour.
That said there are signs the late start might be stretching things a bit. I see that as I post this there are actually a couple of pairs of tickets for tonight still in the open on Ticketmaster for the taking (the $400 price for each seat might have something to do with it too?). For someone driving in from Brandon you'd be looking at rolling back into town at 1:30-2AM or even later if overtime (yikes).
FWIW I see that if there happen to be game 7s in both series, they have them on different nights so Jets/Preds would be a 7pm Manitoba time start on Thursday.

Will be interesting to see how the next round's handled, Jets (or Preds... not about to count my chickens just yet ). How interested will big markets be in the Vegas "moneyball on ice" story?
How 'bout those Jets though?