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More Variety in the NHL Schedule - Changes Approved
by Alanah McGinley on 11/29/07 at 07:22 PM ET
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From Mark Spector at the National Post,
“I understand the different arguments to keep the schedule the way it is, the travel and the expenses, but we need more variety,” said Colorado’s John-Michael Liles. “If Ovechkin is out west, it’ll draw more people to the buildings. There’s a lot of great players in the West, but the ones in the East - maybe seeing them only once every three years, that’s not right.
“Crosby came into our building this year, got two goals in the first period, and our fans were going, ‘All right, we should get this guy out west more often.’ We’re still talking about the spinarama move Crosby put on Rob Blake in Crosby’s rookie year when we went to Pittsburgh. Blakie came to our bench and said, ‘What was that?’ “
Updated 8:48pm ET— From TSN:
For its new-look schedule, the National Hockey League will be going to an old look.
Sources tell TSN the NHL has approved a schedule that will have each team play 24 divisional games, 40 in-conference matchups, 15 games against non-conference teams and three wild card games against out of conference teams.
The new schedule, which received the necessary two-thirds majority vote, will swing into play next season. The format - which was used prior to the NHL lockout - allows for every team to play every team at least once in a season, but it would still be every other year before a player like Sidney Crosby or Alexander Ovechkin would play in every building.
Update 9:30pm ET— More from Pierre LeBrun at the CP (via Globe & Mail)
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boo… I wanted every team at both houses.. 84 games would have been great.. booo…
Posted by canesice on 11/30/07 at 12:05 AM ET
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Well, it’s better than what we have now, but I still don’t like not being able to see every team each year.
Posted by Rachel from San Jose on 11/29/07 at 10:32 PM ET