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Hockey Really Doesn’t Change Much In An Olympic Year
by Paul on 08/12/09 at 05:26 PM ET
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from Terry Frei at ESPN,
Disregarding last season’s four-team, four-game opening show in Europe that preceded the North American portion of the schedule, and also the five-day All-Star break, the NHL’s 82-game season was stretched out over 181 days in 2008-09. Sticklers can add five days for the Senators, Lightning and Penguins, and four for the Rangers.
This season’s schedule, not counting the 14-day break, will take 179 days. The season-opening European games in Helsinki (Panthers versus Blackhawks) and Stockholm (Red Wings versus Blues) are built into the same period in which all teams are playing.
The two fewer days doesn’t qualify as significant compression.
Actually, schedule compression compared to the previous season hasn’t been much of an issue since the ‘98 and ‘02 Games, and they came in seasons when the NHL also had four-day All-Star Game breaks.
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