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Originally Posted by GirlySports
The NHL insists on every Western team playing every Eastern team home and away which makes fair scheduling almost impossible with all the Canadian and US tv and building restrictions and team byes. If there's lots of 3 in 4 nights, someone is going to get shafted.
NBA also has this problem but less so because it's all one country.
NFL and MLB have it figured out. Play much more in your division, less outside of it.
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The NFL doesn't have stadium issues, its pretty much 1 tenant. They also have a 17 game schedule and each plays each other twice in the division, its not that hard.
The NHL and NBA share a lot of arenas, and they are used for other things as well.
Extra divisional games made the NHL awful, not to mention the terrible playoff format we have now would be overkill.