All right. Well, why don't we go to, since Bridget had her surprise guests first, let's go to Scott with his opening shift to start.

So the NHL announced it's scheduled for opening night.

Now, the rest of the team's schedules are the full season schedules coming on on Wednesday.

But ESPN announced a triple header for opening night.

Blackhawks at Panthers at 5 o'clock Eastern, uh, Panthers banner raising,

followed by penguins at Rangers at 8 o'clock and then avalanche at Kings at 1030.

And I gotta say, I just think the NHL needs to do a better job with opening night and like making this an event.

I know like they're trying to do that by making it a triple header, but a five o'clock banner raising doesn't really scream like marquee event.

Having the Panthers face the Blackhawks one of the worst teams in the league i know

connor bad bad team there's no rivalry there or anything um rangers and penguins is the second

game i know two big markets new york pittsburg both miss the playoffs, like two non-playoff teams,

and you're in your prime time spot on opening night.

Avalancheque King's good game, but it's 10.30 Eastern.

Most people probably won't be up for it.

It just like, this feels to me similar to what the NHL, to me, did wrong last season.

Now, maybe their ratings tell them otherwise.

I know ratings were down, so it doesn't seem like it worked.

But last year, we got all these like primetime national TV games that had crappy matchups because

they always resort to putting the same teams on TV and Boston's one of them and they

were part of the problem at times last year and might be again this year if they have a lot

of national TV games but you know Boston know, Boston, New York, Philly, Pittsburgh, Chicago, Detroit.

And it's like they're so afraid to put non-traditional teams in these primetime spots.

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