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Originally Posted by Northendzone
the NHL is scheduling around concerts, trade shows and other events in all venues who knows where in the pecking order their venue requests fall - in some rinks likely high, in others not so much. also you now have to do this for all 32 teams. I believe that the schedule is done by hand (I am sure I read they tried software to do it, but it caused lots of issues)
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Scheduling is considerably more difficult than most people including the Globe & Mail realize. Even in the playoffs we get these two day breaks in some series because of conflicting arena schedules. Try doing that in large US cities in December, January, etc that house an NBA team and plenty of concerts and see how easy it is to schedule all these play and stays for all 32 teams at once.
Our supposed green PM flies from Ottawa to Florida back to Ottawa for a meeting (anyone heard of Skype?) then back to Florida to continue his vacation and we want to pick on the NHL with all the obstacles they already face when it comes to scheduling? It's always the people with the biggest carbon footprints like David Suzuki telling everyone else that they need to be better while not walking the walk and now they want to pick on professional sports. I'm all for smarter scheduling but I don't think people can understand how difficult it is to make the schedule and as well we are talking about totally re-writing the NHL schedule in regards to inter and outer conference play.