CALGARY, Alberta — Hockey fans across North America may have to be night owls at points this season to see their team play, thanks to a move by three Canadian provinces to stay on daylight saving time.
Manitoba announced its decision on Sept. Alberta, home of the Edmonton Oilers and Calgary Flames, Manitoba with the Winnipeg Jets and British Columbia with the Vancouver Canucks decided not to move clocks back an hour in November and ahead in March, a shift that throws a few wrinkles into an NHL schedule that is driven by media rights holders. A decision was made by the province … and decisions were made by others that this is the time we’re going to start hockey games. “There’s caffeine out there. “A lot of times after games, the later games, you’re going to bed late, you’re still wired, so it’s just important to kind of stick with getting the good naps. Manitoba will be on the same time as Toronto on Nov. “It’s something that we’ve never really been through. At the Stanley Cup Final in June, Commissioner Gary Bettman joked that nobody asked the league what it thought about the time zone changes.
17, the same day players hit the ice for NHL training camps. The next day, the NHL issued changes to a dozen Winnipeg Jets home games, pushing them back an hour, but none later than 7:30 p.m. local time. 1. Even having an 8 p.m. game to start the season, a little bit different, but we’ll get used to it.
“It’s out of our control,” Calgary president and chief executive officer Robert Hayes told the Canadian Press. “I’ve always said in my business career, ‘Let’s focus on the things we can control,’ and we can’t control that. “Professional athletes got to do what we got to do to get ready,” said Flames captain Mikael Backlund. “The naps are big, or at least they are for myself,” Frederic said. “It’s going to be different,” winger Brendan Gallagher said.
