Back here in the Foothills, it was 9:08 p.m. MT before the puck dropped on the Coast.
Five-and-a-half hours later, while the rest of the city was deep in a slumber, the Montreal Canadiens arrived at their Calgary hotel - exhausted, but on the heels of 5-1 win over the Vancouver Canucks.
Jesperi Kotkaniemi, Corey Perry, Shea Weber, Jeff Petry and Phillip Danault had the goals, while Carey Price stopped 23 of the 24 shots he faced in the victory.
"That's five or six games where we've repeated the same game every (time)," Danault said of the win. "When we come to practice, we're hard, we're sharp and we execute. That's a positive thing. ... If we play like that every game, we have a chance to win every game. That's what we did tonight and we got the win."
Price, meanwhile, has taken some heat this year, but has played vastly better under Interim Head Coach Dominique Ducharme and the recently appointed Sean Burke as the Director of Goaltending.
Coincidence?
Either way, the former Jennings and Vezina Trophy-winner is rounding back into form and has allowed only four goals on his last 106 shots.
"I think we've been a lot better in front of him," Weber said of his goalie. "At the start of the year, we were leaving him and Jake (Allen) out to dry and we got fortunate, they were bailing us out big time. I think we've improved a lot in front of him and obviously that helps him settle in a little bit."
Allen is likely to get the start tonight. He has a 4-2-3 record, along with a .921 save percentage and a 2.31 goals-against average.
As far as back-to-backs go, they don't get much tougher in this all-Canadian North Division, with a later-than-usual start time in the game city, before losing an hour on the short flight east over the Rockies.
But the Habs are on a roll now, winning two and securing points in three straight after finishing the month of February with five consecutive losses.
That's enough to wake anyone up.
"I thought it was our best game," Ducharme said of the effort in Vancouver. "I thought it was our best game. We were relentelss in what we were doing on both sides of the puck. The pace of our game ... and we made it really hard for them. We could counter, we could go (on) offence and bring our speed because we were connected. That's what we're working on and we want to be that way in all situations - a block of five with and without the puck."
Injury update: Ben Chiarot left last night's game late in the first period and did not return after a fight with Canucks forward J.T. Miller. Chiarot threw his helmet to the ground in a fit of anger as he exited the ice, indicating that something was wrong. Ducharme has confirmed that Chiarot will not be available for tonight's game.
