David Singleton
Registered User
Is there anyway to tweak the schedule in order to increase interest television-wise?
Unfortunately, I assume they will keep a full 82 game schedule (I would like to see that trimmed to about 60), so I will work from that assumption.
What if they adopted something similar to baseball in doing three game home stands? Maybe Thursday evening, Saturday afternoon/night, and Sunday afternoon/night. The primary national TV network (NBC?) could replay the earlier games in the series prior to the "rubber" match declaring that day as "Hockey Day in America." Well, maybe without the corny slogan it would work.
The side benefits to home stands is less travel for the teams (and fans when attending away games), fosters rivalries, creates huge local interest around the arenas (especially downtown arenas), and allows teams to offer a ticket package for all three games (hopefully helping attendence where that is necessary- which may be everywhere initially).
The more I think about it, a three game series in downtown Nashville with the visiting Red Wings would be a tremendous draw.
Does the idea have merit?
David
Unfortunately, I assume they will keep a full 82 game schedule (I would like to see that trimmed to about 60), so I will work from that assumption.
What if they adopted something similar to baseball in doing three game home stands? Maybe Thursday evening, Saturday afternoon/night, and Sunday afternoon/night. The primary national TV network (NBC?) could replay the earlier games in the series prior to the "rubber" match declaring that day as "Hockey Day in America." Well, maybe without the corny slogan it would work.
The side benefits to home stands is less travel for the teams (and fans when attending away games), fosters rivalries, creates huge local interest around the arenas (especially downtown arenas), and allows teams to offer a ticket package for all three games (hopefully helping attendence where that is necessary- which may be everywhere initially).
The more I think about it, a three game series in downtown Nashville with the visiting Red Wings would be a tremendous draw.
Does the idea have merit?
David