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Originally Posted by FireGilbert
With no crowds does it really matter what time the games start locally? You can have the Eastern games in Vegas start at 1700 local time then the Western games in let’s say Columbus at 2200 local time.
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Considering this is 100% for TV, prime time broadcasting is key. If they are playing two- three games/ day out of one arena there will be late games. So if eastern teams have a game scheduled to start in Vegas at 8:00pm, that is 11:00 local time. Not quite hitting the prime time slots locally.
Going the other way, do you think starting games at 10pm is logical? Scheduled ending at 1:00am? With overtime games ending well into the wee hours of the next day? There's no way the players go for 10pm start times.
You have to think for the first round, with two games per day per rink the start times will look like 2:00pm and 8:00pm