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Your Thoughts On Adding 2 More Games To The Regular Season?

12/16/2022 at 3:21pm EST

from Greg Wyshynski of ESPN,

The NHL has discussed expanding its regular season from 82 to 84 games in an effort to create more regional rivalry matchups, sources confirmed to ESPN.

The league has been considering alternatives to its current schedule after some teams complained about an imbalanced number of divisional games against rivals.

Currently, each team plays either three or four games against divisional opponents, for a total of 26 games; they play three games against non-divisional teams within their own conference, for a total of 24 games; and they play two games, home and away, against opponents from the other conference for a total of 32 games.

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Paul

Fine with me but no more than 3 preseason games and start the regular season on September 15th.

yzer19man19

Agree Paul, cut back on the preseason games. Really don't need 8 preseason games. 

bigfrog

I agree Paul. No more than 4 Pre Season games, two home and two away.

EthrDemon

Exactly the opposite, regular season is too long already.

Division: 7x4 = 28

Everybody else: 24x2 = 48

76 game schedule

TheMeal

The best I could say about this idea is that I dont hate it, assuming the preseason gets knocked down. I dont think regular season games would really enhance rivalries (thats more of a post-season thing, IMO).

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