another friday night home game
very weird
what on earth is bettman thinking ?
It’s almost like someone said ‘Gary, for the lulz this squirrel we’ve hooked to electrodes should make the schedule!’
Last Monday: one nothing game, CHI vs PHI.
The next night: 13 games.
Leafs April 2022:
4/4 @ TBL
4/5 @ FLA
4/21 @ TBL again.
4/23 @ FLA once more.
I know Covid messed a few things up, but only six immediate Leafs games were postponed, as well as several a few weeks later.
You could start the season on the first Saturday of October and end it April 8-15th, and there’s still Xmas and All Star breaks, with no need to derp around with ‘bye weeks’ because they’re already baked in.
Simply have every team…play nine games every three weeks, never more than four in a week.
Some do a 4-3-2, some do 3-3-3, maybe a few teams get stiffed with a 4-1-4 or whatever,you can change it every year, just stick to that 9 in 21 format and there’s enough numbers to go around.
Suppose the Leafs run a 3-2-4, let’s look at that in November of this year:
11/6
11/8
11/12
11/14
11/15
11/17
11/19
11/22
11/24
Next game no earlier than 11/28, let’s give Ottawa the 4-1-4 in the same period:
11/6
11/9
11/11
11/12
11/17
11/20
11/21
11/23
11/25
Next no earlier than 11/28
Arena availability is an issue, but these organizations have hundreds of people working the logistics end, there has to be a less stupid way.
