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Originally Posted by strombad
Just because you say "wrong" doesn't mean that it's actually wrong.
The NHL could simply take your last scenario and do 4 games against one of the division rivals (which would alternate every year) creating 82 games.
Problem solved, and I didn't even have to be hired by the NHL to do it, surely they could easily figure an 82 game schedule.
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TOTF's big mistake was assuming that every team has to play every divisional opponent the same number of times. In the current system, that is already not the case out east. Tampa Bay, for instance, plays Montreal, Florida, Toronto, Boston and Buffalo four times and Ottawa and Detroit five this year.
That being said, the 84 game scenario is the best mathematically. Problem is, that would only happen if the NHLPA agreed to it. And if the NHLPA agreed to it, it blows up his other argument about how expansion creates too much hockey for the players.