from David Staples of the Edmonton Journal,
Here’s what Edmonton is up against:
- After a great run where the Oilers just won six of their last eight games, the team just faced ten days off between games. That long rest came because the NHL put the Oilers’ annual and mandated bye week next to the NHL’s annual All Star Game break. It’s hard to imagine that a team off ten days won’t have a considerable amount of rust in its game.
- Following up on this stupidly long break, the Oilers have two gruelling run of games in February and March, first 12 games in 23 nights, then 17 games in 32 nights.
- Three of those games are on the second night of back-to-backs.
from Sam Carchidi of the Philadelphia Inquirer,
Several members of the Flyers’ front office will meet Wednesday with an NHL official, trying to work with the league to reduce the amount of back-to-back games the team plays next season and improve its overall schedule....
“We’ve got to get it right,” Scott said during an interview Tuesday at the Wells Fargo Center “One of the challenges with this building is that it has so much activity between the Flyers,the Sixers, 59 or so concerts and Disney on Ice.”
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