Mike wrote on Tue, 07 May 2024 10:55

CrusaderPi wrote on Tue, 07 May 2024 11:53 August hockey was great, but that was an... extraordinary circumstance. Year after year, June after June I want to get on with my summer. I mean get on with your summer. And then at night if the Oilers are still in it, you get to watch some hockey at the beach or whatever I know it'll never happen, but there could be benefits to starting the season a couple of months later. No competition with MLB playoffs and the NFL to start the season, no NBA playoffs at the end of the season. You run it Jan-Sep. CrusaderPi wrote on Tue, 07 May 2024 11:53 Dropping the puck 20 minutes after the start time. They're outsmarting themselves. They make it really hard to follow the playoffs. This one annoys me. With baseball, they have a start time, and unless there are extenuating circumstances, they stick to it. To the minute. Want to have all your ceremonies and banner raisings and whatever else? Awesome - have it done before the stated "puck drop" time.

That's why I think starting playoffs the week after the first round of March Madness would be prime time. No real competition except regular season basketball and opening day. Now they're fighting for time with playoff basketball, regular season baseball, and me wanting to golf. Of course I'll watch the Oilers in the Stanley Cup any time anywhere. My mom, to this day, is pissy about a SCF game on her wedding day... all the men were hiding in the kitchen watching the third on a black and white. The rest of the league? Feh, I'd rather golf.


Just tell me the game is starting at 8:50. If I'm watching, I'm watching. It's so so pointlessly dumb.

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