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Originally Posted by lazypucker
I still can't fathom how the league still insist of having teams play on back-to-back days. Extend the regular season for 2 weeks will eliminate such scheduling problems.
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The crazy part is how teams seemingly would rather play back-to-back games than fill their calendar in October and November. A lot of American teams don't like to have games in those months because attendance is generally less due to NFL and probably some other factors.
Look at New Jersey's schedule in October and November. You can't tell me that they couldn't have squeezed in some more games to reduce the back-to-back situation if they really wanted to:
https://www.nhl.com/devils/schedule/2023-10-02
https://www.nhl.com/devils/schedule/2023-11-02