The NHL would have asked to advance Game #6 of the series to 8:00 p.m.

As east coast hockey fans know all too well, games on the Pacific coast are usually late in the evening. Beginner matches between 9:30 p.m. and 10:30 p.m. are very frequent.

You have to understand that with the time difference, it’s normal here to see games start late in the evening.

However, during the NHL playoffs, aside from the NBA playoffs (usually ahead of the NHL playoffs) as well as the MLB regular season, there isn’t much action in sports. .

So that leaves a more open schedule for the sports channels as few matches are happening simultaneously.

For example, on this Sunday, May 14, 2023, there was only one playoff game in the NBA, which was scheduled for 3:30 p.m. and only one playoff game in the NHL.

Game #6, between the Vegas Golden Knights and the Edmonton Oilers, is scheduled for 10:00 p.m. which is ridiculous, considering the NBA itself has put its only game early for a Sunday.

On Twitter, we can also see the dissatisfaction of several Internet users, most of whom have a job requiring them to get up early in the morning, which also lowers the ratings.

However, there is a rumor within ESPN that is currently going on and it would involve precisely this match.

According to reporter Dan Kingerski, the NHL requested to move Game 6 of the series up to 8:00 p.m., asking ESPN to move the regular season baseball game to ESPN2.

This request would however have been refused by ESPN, just like that of exchanging matches broadcast with the TNT channel.

Former NHL defenseman Ryan Whitney also had his say and seems to agree with the general opinion of hockey fans who don’t like the decision to put this game at 10:00 p.m.

You have to think about the fact that currently, Connor McDavid and Leon Draisaitl are the best players in the world and they both play for the Oilers.

It is indeed a sacrilege to deprive many hockey fans of the two best players in the league, on a Sunday, when it is the only game on the schedule today.

Whitney is really not the only one to think so, while several Internet users share the same opinion, like Jennifer Dunbar, or this partisan page of James Reimer.

@NHL Are you trying to punish the @DallasStars? Relegated to the late game every game of the playoffs so far???? Bettman, get your head out of the sand, HOCKEY THRIVES IN DALLAS!!!

— Jennifer Dunbar (@dunbar106) May 7, 2023

The NHL should rethink its schedule in the playoffs eventually, but the fact that ESPN would have refused all requests from the NHL, also proves how hockey is not as popular as in Canada.

It seems to me that playing a crucial game earlier, featuring the two best players on the planet, wouldn’t really have hurt ESPN. The ratings would have been high enough to compete with a regular season baseball game.

A lot of

– To set the table a little more for this match #6 between the Golden Knights and the Oilers.

– If you are still awake, we now know the goalkeeper duel for match #6.

– Now on leave, Garnet Hathaway of the Bruins is having a blast at the Red Sox game.

– It doesn’t bode well for Doc Rivers, although star player Joel Embiid thinks he’s been fantastic in those playoffs.