Regressing to the mean since 2015, it's the Hockey PEDEOCast with your host, Dmitri Filippovich.

Welcome to the Hockey PEDEOCast. My name is is Dimitri Filipovich and joining me on this delightful

Fridays, my good buddy, Sean, what's going on, man? Not much, Ben. I was just saying before we started

recording it, I was enjoying yesterday being a full day of hockey as far as I know it was something

we got to do. We got because the game was in Sweden,

but I enjoyed the Thursday 2 o'clock start here for me and being able to watch a game fully

without having to juggle watching six or seven at once. And I don't know, just kind of a dream

of a better time in the world when someday the league decides that we can do this more often and it doesn't have to be a game in Europe for us to kind of get a scheduling like that on for people who want to watch a ton of games like you and I. Yeah, I love the matinee element of it. Certainly, it's nice to just have hockey on throughout the day and it helped that it it was a very entertaining, high-scoring, fun game as well.

I got a lot of complaints and comments from people being like, I wish I was actually able to watch this game.

In typical NHL fashion, they made it very difficult to actually access it and enjoy it in certain parts of the world, which is very frustrating.

But yeah, I know, I enjoy it.

I guess I wonder, you know, other leagues certainly pull it off, right?

Baseball does it quite a bit.

You mentioned, you know, European soccer and stuff like it.

There's ways to make it happen.

I wonder here domestically if you were doing afternoon weekday games like that, how that would affect both viewership and also attendance.

But I imagine people would make it work, especially it became kind of a regular thing in our schedules.

The way to make it happen is, and there's two partners that you'd have to get on board with it is because they control everything now.

It is you'd have to get Turner and ESPN on board for it, basically, is what you would need.

One of the reasons the NHL schedule is about a week later and will be going forward is because of Turner and ESPN.

They feel it's better for their schedule.

One of the reasons that this game, that these games in Sweden don't really get all the love

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