The notion of starting a new season in a foreign country is a strange one. With all the pageantry that comes with it, not to have it on Canadian or US soil just seems pointless. Having regular season games abroad is alright a few weeks in—the NFL playing a game in London seems to have been a good decision for the popularity of the sport in the UK—but the season opener?
The most glaring issue is the time difference. The two Bruins-Coyotes games played in Prague over the weekend started at noon Eastern Time. Considering the fact that the NHL is still struggling for fans, scheduling six games in the first three days to be played at an awkward time for US audiences is a mind-boggling decision.
Do you want to watch your team’s first game of the year as you eat breakfast? Apparently commissioner Gary Bettman thought Coyotes fans did.
Regardless of what times the games started, the most important thing is that the 2010/11 Boston Bruins season has begun. You’d be forgiven for thinking that no one told the B’s, however.
If anything, Boston looked nervous, which, when one thinks about it, is understandable if unaccepta ...
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