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.