[troutman]

Originally Posted by getbak

It's interesting to look at each team's split between favourable vs. unfavourable match-ups on the back-to-backs...

• EDM = +10
• NYR = +8
• ARI = +7
• LAK, ANA, CGY, NSH = +2
• MIN, WSH, VGK, BOS, NYI, WPG = +1
• MTL = 0
• PHI, FLA, DET, CHI, TOR, TBL, PIT = -1
• CAR, CBJ, SJS, STL = -2
• BUF, OTT, DAL, COL = -3
• NJD = -4
• VAN = -8

22 of 31 teams between a +2 and a -2 difference. Only 4 teams with a split that's greater than 5 one way or the other.

Not only that, but one of Edmonton's "tired" games is a home back-to-back in January, so they don't even need to travel between games (another is a LA-Anaheim back-to-back, so again, no real travel between games).

If this is an annually consistent thing, Ken King should be fired for this fact alone. Giving away free points to the competition every year, because they are not flexible enough in setting dates.