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--- Quote from: Patrick on 24 Oct 2013, 12:19 ---so then every team's gonna have to fly halfway around the world for one day? sounds... efficient.
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That's what is going to be figured out next year when three games are played in London. They only play eight regular season home games per year plus two preseason games and games are normally on Sunday, so it is logistically doable. Teams cross the US frequently, so travelling that far is nothing new to teams especially if they hold up the tradition of giving a bye week where they don't play the next week to the travelling team.
The Oakland Raiders will be playing as host next year for one of the games, that's one of the longest distances any team could travel giving the league a real idea how the travel will impact teams.
jwhouk:
The five-hour difference is only a bit worse than Oakland coming to New England for a game.
Patrick:
I don't think you're taking flight time into account, and only accounting for the time zone difference. A flight from SFO (nobody flies to London from OAK) to LHR is gonna be around 11 hours. That's gonna total to a full day's worth of time where they can't train or do anything else useful.
Patrick:
PS congrats to the Bruins for unseating the only team undefeated in reg last night. I wasn't terribly upset that my Sharks lost to the Bruins, but that the Bruins beat the clock by 0.8s and kept us from at least earning a point. Plus, holding onto that "undefeated in reg" title another couple days at least woulda been nice.
mustang6172:
If the Hawaii Rainbow Warriors can occasionally play an east coast game, I guess the trans-Atlantic logistics aren't so terrible.
Thats from a state that doesn't observe daylight savings time mind you.
An 11-hour flight calls for an 11-hour film session!
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