Although a 67 % improvement over the entertainment programs formerly broadcast by City on Sunday nights , ratings for the first eight '' Hometown Hockey '' games were modest and lower than expected by Rogers , with only two games ( its debut game , and an Ottawa Senators/Toronto Maple Leafs game on November 9 , 2014 which had been rescheduled from a Wednesday night game following the Parliament Hill shootings ) surpassing one million viewers . Moore admitted that the Sunday primetime games were a new concept that still needed time to establish , again drawing comparisons to '' Sunday Night Football '' , but that they were succeeding in their goal of attracting more viewership to City
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