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Originally Posted by powderjunkie
I don't actually know how NY area teams handle travelling to games against each other? I'd guess that if you're playing in MSG you check-in to a nearby hotel the night before...maybe that's the case for all three arenas?
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They treat them "like" home games. The teams meet at their home arena early in the day then bus to the other arena in the afternoon for night games.
As long as you avoid the busiest times, it's only 30 minutes from MSG to Newark, and not much more than that from MSG to Nassau Coliseum.
Some of the Rangers' players get permission to head right from their homes to Nassau Coliseum because they live on Long Island.
It's a little trickier/longer from Nassau to Newark, but they just leave a little earlier in the day.
In every instance, it's completely unnecessary to check into a hotel the night before that would only be marginally closer.
The two L.A. area teams do the same thing.