Good point. I guess I’m thankful for that because we’ll be the ones doing the joining, but it’ll make for some late nights, especially given how close these teams played each other in the regular season. OT seems likely.

I’m saying this without checking the entire schedule for round 2 - I just woke up and feel too lazy - but I’m guessing it’s to help avoid games being joined in progress.

My pet peeve in the first round was having to miss at least the first half of the first period as the games were only scheduled 2 hours apart.