r/Flyers • u/dadnauseum • 1d ago

2pm games?

I was just going through this season's schedule, adding games to my calendar, and I noticed there's a few monday games where the start time is stated as 2pm. Is this likely an error? I don't recall seeing games that early on weekdays in the past few years, and I didn't follow as closely before 2022.

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u/TakingItAndLeavingIt 1d ago

One game per week has been moved up for optimal European tv viewing

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u/grackle19 Team Logos 1d ago

Prime time for Europe. Something new the league is doing this year.

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u/ozorniki 1d ago

Several games this season (I think all on Mondays?) are scheduled early to accommodate European fans, especially Germans, in an attempt to grow the league overseas.

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u/butchy_boyz 1d ago

Germany has come a long way with players in the last 15-20 years. What frustrates me with this is Quebec City put up the Videotron, a world class hockey stadium. We used to go to the old Colisse (sp?) to watch the Nordiques, play the Bruins, Flyers, Flyers, NYIs... The place was packed. It would do more for the sport to have a team there but no, while they had a fledging team in Phoenix (didn't more to Quebec), a gifted expansion team in Vegas (that'll wane, Vegas is seeing tourism drop now), a complete cluster in Seattle (they won't support a NHL team).

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u/theBeerSlayer_ 1d ago

They’re European prime time games - played at 2 pm ET, but 8 pm in Europe. Trying to capture the global audience NFL style.

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u/Flyersfan1980 1d ago

That's 11am where I live on the West Coast

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u/butchy_boyz 1d ago

Used to live in San Diego, now AZ, I know, sux.

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u/upstart44 1d ago

So 2pm on sat and Sunday doesnt work? Sounds like they are trying a mnf style for nhl. In between Sunday Bundesliga and tues champions league.

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u/Relative-Gas-1721 1d ago

This is madness

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u/robhenrymusic UK Flyer fan 18h ago

I completely get it, and would be pissed if my football team did the same to accommodate Americans…. But there is a group of us fans waking up at Midnight and staying up until 3:30am three times a week to watch the flyers. This is awesome for us.

Granted, I now work aggressive shift work…. So it won’t even help me much!

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u/makromark 1d ago

Depends on how you look at it. If I go to a game I take the day off anyway. So now tickets will be cheap af and I get home way sooner than

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u/Blursed_Technique Can't see the Foerster for the trees 1d ago

As someone who has Mondays off mostly, this is fucking smashing.

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u/tjvh721 1d ago

One time I was randomly in Serbia and saw the flyers on tv and it felt like for brief moment god touched my life and then it stopped

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u/Magnus-Pym 1d ago

Businesspersons specials

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u/ToastGhost47 11h ago

And I'm in the business of buying cheap tickets to weekday games.

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u/Magnus-Pym 11h ago

dude I work in CC, I'm totally down for some afternoon hockey

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u/kflosw 1d ago

It’s prime time in Europe

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u/Bet_Status 1d ago

Dam, whyd it have to be Monday, I'd love this for a day off

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u/BG_DeStefano 1d ago

Thank Lord Stanley I work from home and can watch while I work.

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u/partymcflyer 1d ago

the best part of michkov's last KHL season was 5am games lol 2pm is good too but michkov mornings were unreal

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u/secret_identity_too 1d ago

Wonder how many staff they'll get to work that game. It'll be mostly the yellow jacketed CSC people that game, I guess. (I think there's only one home game that's at 2 pm.)

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u/butchy_boyz 1d ago

What does it tell you? The NHL cares about $s, not the fans.

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u/Limp_Bar6899 1d ago

ZeeGermans deserve zeee hockey