I've been taking a closer look at the Jets 2016 schedule today because we are having our ticket draft for our seats tonight.   The Jets really got a horrible schedule this year.

• Home game against the Kings, Sunday November 13th @ 2PM.  Same time / day as the CFL Semi Final playoff game.  (Playoff games are at 12 and 3:30 that day, so if the Bombers are in a semi final game, there is a conflict)
   
• Jets home game against Nashville on Sunday November 27th @ 5PM.   That happens to be the same date the Grey Cup is played.  Start time 5:30 PM.

The semi-final game I can mostly overlook, but why would the NHL schedule any home game for the Canadian teams at the same time as the Grey Cup?   There is a lot of tradition amongst Canadians in terms of Grey Cup parties and the like.  Also 2 of the other people we share our Jets seats with are the same people I have my Bomber tickets with.

• The Jets don’t have any weekend night games until February.  These are usually the games I go after first as the atmosphere in the arena is usually the best....  Fair number of weekend afternoon games (team has historically been very flat for those games) and lots of weeknight games.

I completely blame Sportsnet for this...

#FirstWorldProblems 

 

I will take any tickets that do not suit your criteria.

One caveat: paying for them does not suit my criteria.

(You're totally right though, the schedule blows this year - although they do always tend to find ways to tempt me into a Jets vacation)

Yep, I'm the same boat.  We're already trying to find people to take our Sept.30 Jets tickets. So speaking of, if anyone's interested let me know!

And without having any knowledge of how the sked works, I'm fully ready to blame Sportsnet!  Why can't they just go back to worrying about the Jays and NBA and leave the sports we care about to the real pros?! 

 

7 minutes ago, Jimmy Pop said:

Yep, I'm the same boat.  We're already trying to find people to take our Sept.30 Jets tickets. So speaking of, if anyone's interested let me know!

And without having any knowledge of how the sked works, I'm fully ready to blame Sportsnet!  Why can't they just go back to worrying about the Jays and NBA and leave the sports we care about to the real pros?! 

 

At least the September 30th game is a pre-season game.   Not a big loss.

What's the big southern tour this year?  I'm also always tempted to do that 

Grey Cup Sunday Jets game is a TSN3 game, so likely takes the blame away from Rogers (still, screw you Sportsnet).

I think the NHL will eventually have to answer for this after the World Cup. Doesn't do them any favours having the game at that time and seems like an even bigger F-U considering the Bombers are hosting the NHL at our stadium this year. Payback for not bowing down to the league last season re: Heritage scheduling? 

H&L just said through the last 25 years no Canadian team has ever had a home game same time as GC on Sunday. This year, both Ott and Cgy have road games during the GC.

Gary Lawless starting this war on Twitter as we speak.

Its the NHL. The league is run by a group of douchebags. They'd rather cater to the US who does not care about hockey.

Lawless, on Twitter, says Jets and NHL are attempting to change the schedule to avoid Grey Cup. Lot of moving parts and people involved, but "confident" they can work something out....

 

 

Seems like a fairly common sense thing to do.

Glad they were able to make that work...

yeah now I don't have to worry about flipping between three things at Once or having to change channels if things go south

Fixed problem that should never have happened. CAL/OTT changing sched as well?

Would be quite the day to go to the Jets game and then directly to a Bomber home playoff game after.  I wonder if the CFL would now consider pushing the kickoff back by an hour to allow people some time to do both.  Of course this is based on the Bombers finishing second in the west...

The NHL probably thinks its hard enough making schedules with everyones building commitments as it is, they dont want to screw around for the CFL.  But its a respect thing to Canadian fans. Also, NHL probably doesnt care about TSN's feelings whereas in the past they would have. 

I just want to bring a heads up about this friday's preseason jets game not being televised

21 minutes ago, iHeart said:

I just want to bring a heads up about this friday's preseason jets game not being televised

Oh well. It's pre season. 

well I can always listen to it on the radio if there's no blue jays games being broadcast

I see the Jets going with 6 wins and 3 losses in October this season.

Now they just have to change the NFL game on Sunday night so it doesn't conflict with the presidential debate...