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Originally Posted by Boblobla
You mean before when they had to worry about getting fans into the building?
Maybe it will be double headers but I would imagine that the broadcasters will want the east, where there are larger viewing audiences, to have prime time games in their region. I could see games vs Win, Edm and Van be 7-8PM start time but would not be at all surprised to see 5/5:30 local start times for home games against at least Montreal and Toronto.
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That's kind of what I'm thinking too. On days with 2 Canadian games (which looks to be the case more often than not), I bet they do 7/10 Eastern double headers, where the biggest East game will be at 5pm regardless of where they are playing, and maybe a 8/8:30 Eastern neutral start for East vs West games when it's the only game on the schedule. I'd imagine Toronto and Montreal would have lobbied for something like this as part of playing 4/7ths of their road schedule out of the Eastern time zone.