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Originally Posted by Snapshot
The ECHL, and to a lesser extent the AHL, actually do a bunch of 3 games in 3 nights sets, and they aren't all stay and plays (the stay and plays are usually the 3 games in 4 nights that you mentioned). They also predominantly just play in their own conferences, too. Since the NHL has inter conference play, this wouldn't work for when teams need to make road trips to the opposite coasts, which is where they really rack up the travel miles.
I'm guessing there may be something in the CBA that would prevent this for NHL players, especially when they tend to be fatigued in the back end of back to backs or the 3 games in 4 nights that they have to do now.
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i'm guessing they do it for financial reasons; the NHL doesn't need to do that to cut down costs.
if they are concerned they should be trying to ensure that travel debacles like the one the Flames went through doesn't happen... having more extended road trips when travelling cross country would be a preferable way to reduce travel imo...
if I am a STH, seeing the same team play 3 games in four nights or 2 games in 3 nights has zero appeal to me...neither does playing 3 games versus Ottawa in the span of 5 days... though i am sure my brother (STH) might offer me a lot more games during the year if this was adopted