Quick Hits: Oilers Win Lottery, Hub Cities and OT

The NHL will not announce their two Hub cities today. An announcement will come over the weekend or on Monday.

My main question regarding the Hub City will be when they play games. Starting a game in Vegas at 12 p.m. 4:30 p.m. and 9 p.m, means the games would start one, two and three hours later in Mountain, Central and Eastern time zones.

It will be a short-term problem, and ends once the qualifying round and seeding round is complete.

But today, I heard the NHL is looking at possibly playing five games a day, instead of six. So one Hub would have three games, and the other play two. The next day they would rotate. And this could solve some of the TV start time issues, and because the seeding teams are only playing three games each, while the qualifying round is a best-of-five, the seeding rounds could be spread out a bit longer.

Either way, there will be a challenge of either starting games in the morning in Vegas, or having them start late at night for TV viewers in the other three time zones.