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Originally Posted by The Yen Man
Um, what? I don't understand your last sentence. Of course they need to pander to the NHL. Rogers paid a crap ton of money for NHL rights, probably way more than they needed to. They'll definitely have ton of sway on when Canadian games start times should be. If they decide 9pm Calgary time is when they should start, Calgary will just have to comply.
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What I mean is that "we" as in the people in Alberta shouldn't base out decision on DST or not with the NHL start time as a major factor. Of course Rogers and the NHL care. They can deal with that. Honestly, if the decision is to play games at 9pm local time to cram in a doubleheader, that's their choice. There's no reason they couldn't play the game earlier in local time to make that fit their slots though.
And my point is regardless of how they decide to address it, the province shouldn't be basing a decision like this on how hockey games might be played. That should be pretty far down the list of considerations.