Is anyone else curious or confused about what the new “Alberta Time” means for Edmonton Oilers start times?

The Alberta government is no longer changing the clocks twice a year and is going to run on permanent Daylight Saving Time. Great news for people who don’t change the clocks in their cars and wait out those six months.

The first hockey-related ramifications arrived with the NHL schedule release this week. Take a peek at how the start times are listed on the Oilers website, presumably to accommodate some of these changes.

In the winter months, home games for the Mountain Standard Time puck drops during the week are more often listed at 6 p.m.

If that’s the local puck drop time in Edmonton, that is nice for the people who like to rush to bed early, but it’ll be a pain in the ass trying to get to games for the working crowd, or any motorist trying to navigate rush hour traffic.

If not (and this is my hunch), then Alberta Time would mean an hour later than what is listed on the website. Those earlier puck drop times would actually be the typical home game start at 7 p.m.

What will take getting used to is a Saturday night, like the home game against the Vancouver Canucks on Nov. 7. That is listed at 8 p.m. MST, but on Alberta Time, again assuming my thinking is correct, that would actually be 9 p.m. local puck drop time.

Other games that would fall into this “later” category:

After this date, Alberta Time and Mountain Standard Time would again become........

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