We’ve all been caught at least once. On TV or on the radio, you are told in promo that the Canadiens game starts at “X” hours, but, in fact, the game starts at least 30 minutes later.
The broadcasters want to have you half an hour before the match for their pre-match show.
But what time does the game, announced at 7 p.m. or 7:30 p.m., really start?
In the middle of the TV, the real beginning of the meeting, we call it the puck drop. This is the precise moment when the referee deposits the puck at center ice for the first time that evening. Unless there are special events, weekday matches start 8 minutes after the published time. If there is no ceremony, the 7:00 p.m. game will actually start at 7:08 p.m.
Several breaks
However, the schedule is different on Saturdays: the start of the game will take place 15 minutes after the scheduled time.
During each of the periods, unless there is a specific event, there will be three breaks in order to remove snow from the ice. We stop for two minutes and the broadcasters will take the opportunity to spend 90 seconds of , and, perhaps in addition, a recovery.
When it comes to intermissions, you have a lot more time than you think. From the end of the period to the beginning of the next, you have 18 minutes.
Have a good evening !
BLUE CHERRY
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Don Cherry during the 1978-79 season.
1979, Don Cherry arrived behind the Colorado Rockies bench after leading the Boston Bruins for five years. He was leading the way even if he was only to stay one season. One of his players was Barry Beck, a giant and talented defender. An articulate and intelligent guy from Vancouver who also took jealous care of his physical condition. However, one morning before the training session, Blue, the coach’s dog, came into the locker room and went to rub her buttocks on the ground in front of Beck’s location. Barry then nudged her with the cane so that she would go elsewhere since that was precisely where the athlete was doing his push-up. So Blue left complaining, screaming towards the office of Don Cherry who immediately came back into the room in a rage asking who had touched his animal. No one answered in the locker room.
Someone must have opened the hatch. The following day, Barry Beck was traded to the New York Rangers. In the transaction, Lucien Deblois went from the Rangers to the Rockies… because of Blue.
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Cole Caufield
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