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Originally Posted by Monahammer
I just wanted to point out that I was replying to a 2 hub scenario, which dramatically impacts the scheduling you mention.
The arenas info is well taken, certainly ohio state's facilities are adequate for playing, but what about televising?? that is the entire point at this juncture, is it not? I would be surprised if you could televise a strong product at any of the practice rinks.
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I was assuming they'd be using each city as 2 hubs with 1 group of 6 teams playing out of each one rather than 4 individual hub cities. That's the only way it could work.
In Vegas, one group of 6 teams would play at Orleans Arena (or MGM or UNLV depending on ice availability) and the other would play at T-Mobile. Both hubs would use the Golden Knights' two practice rinks.
In Columbus, one group would play and practice at OSU and the other would play and practice at Nationwide.
In terms of the telecasts, here are highlights from games played at OSU and Orleans Arena...
Without people in the stands, they'd also have the option of building temporary camera positions anywhere they wanted.
There wouldn't be any games played at the practice rinks, so they don't need broadcast facilities.
For scheduling, assuming they do the plan where the six teams in each hub play each other once, they would need to schedule 15 games. Because teams wouldn't agree to play more than 2 nights in a row, it would need a minimum of 9 days to play all of the games. To do that, you wouldn't need more than 2 games on any day in the same arena (and you would have many days with only one game).
When the playoffs (or play-ins) begin, there wouldn't be more than 2 series going on at a time in each arena, so they could easily be scheduled on alternating nights with only one game in each arena per day.