NHL TIME ZONE CHALLENGE - Miss Hamilton



NHL TIME ZONE CHALLENGE!!!!

Name: ___________________

Politicians, entertainers, business people, and professional athletes are just some of the examples of people who understand time zones and their implications on their careers. You have been hired as the head of the scouting department of the Ottawa Senators. You have scouts all over Canada working for you. Your task is to fill in the charts below that will test your knowledge of time zones and travel!!

Part A: Scouting Report

You work for the Ottawa Senators. Your task is to determine the latitude and longitude coordinates of some of your players respective birthplaces, and the time in the corresponding time zones. Communicating with these players during the off-season can be challenging so base your time around Ottawa at noon on Friday.

|Player |city, country |Coordinates |time |

| |(or Province) | | |

|Colin Greening |St. John’s, NL | | |

|Jim O’Brien |Maplewood, MN, USA | | |

|Daniel Alfredsson |Goteborg, Sweden | | |

|Zack Smith |Maple Creek, SK | | |

|Jason Spezza |Brampton, Ontario | | |

|Kyle Turris |New Westminster, BC | | |

|Chris Neil |Flesherton, Ontario | | |

|Chris Phillips |Calgary, AB | | |

|Kaspars Daugavins |Riga, Latvia | | |

|Milan Michalek |Jindrichuv Hradec, Czech Republic | | |

|Sergei Gonchar |Chelyabinsk, Russia | | |

|Ben Bishop |Denver, Colorado | | |

Part B: Hockey Night In Canada

A Canadian tradition, this CBC telecast is broadcast each Saturday evening during the regular NHL season. Your scouting department, scattered across Canada, needs to be watching the first Senator and Leaf matchup of the season. In the chart below, fill in the time zones and viewing times for the respective cities that will be watching the Leafs and Senators play in Ottawa at 7:00 pm

|CITY |TIME ZONE |VIEWING TIME |

|Charlottetown | | |

|Yellowknife | | |

|Vancouver | | |

|Calgary | | |

|Winnipeg | | |

|St. John’s | | |

|Fredericton | | |

|Regina | | |

Part C: Travel Itinerary

As a scout you will travel with the team across North America. With six possible time zones, this can be very confusing. The chart below is your plane ticket for the Sens first road trip of this season. Please complete the missing spots.

|Flight |Departure Time (Local Time – |Duration |Arrival (Local Time – where the |

| |where the plane departs) | |plane lands) |

|Ottawa to Edmonton |5:00 pm | |7:00 pm |

|Edmonton to Vancouver | |1.5 hours |12:30 am |

|Vancouver to LA |10:00 am | |1:00 pm |

|LA to Dallas |noon |2.5 hours | |

|Dallas to Ottawa | |3.5 hours |2:30 am |

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