Mr Kot
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So with a slightly longer wait, we should watch the annual Garfield Pipe video
We started playing good again and now we get extra days off.
What a mucked up schedule. I honestly cannot ever remember a time when we played back to back at home like we just did.Then we fly to Seattle to play a Saturday afternoon game, rush to the airport to fly home and play Pittsburgh Sunday evening.
Then we fly to Seattle to play a Saturday afternoon game, rush to the airport to fly home and play Pittsburgh Sunday evening.
Then we fly to Seattle to play a Saturday afternoon game, rush to the airport to fly home and play Pittsburgh Sunday evening.
At least Pens will be playing back to back on the road as well, though they will be in Calgary.
Play at 1PM local time. Out of the rink by 5PM, fly home arrive in Edmonton by 8 or 9 PM and get a good night's sleep in your own bed. Much better option than the Pens who will have back to back where they likely do
The schedule maker when making the schedules:
I don't think the schedule maker is necessarily at fault. It's more the NHL catering to certain markets that don't want hockey played when football is going on and/or stacking a ton of games on certain days while other days only have 1 or 2 games.
When you have all these roadblocks eventually you get weird crap like this pop up in the schedule..
The NBA for example, has 6-8 games a night and you see way less issues over the course of the season imo.
That's why they have sophisticated computers.That job would be a logistical nightmare that I wouldn't want and no matter how much we may question it or bemoan it.....it is impressive they get 'er all done.
We have a 2PM Saturday game followed by a 7PM Sunday game. Who is making this bizarre schedule ?
That's why they have sophisticated computers.
Our March schedule is going to be busy with 15 games, but it’s the last stretch of games in April that are absolutely brutal, with 6 games in 9 days to close out the season.
Our March schedule is going to be busy with 15 games, but it’s the last stretch of games in April that are absolutely brutal, with 6 games in 9 days to close out the season.
I don’t mind playing the better opponent part, it’s the volume of games in that time frame that can lead to injuries and burnout just prior to the playoffs that concerns me.I think this is a blessing in disguise. The last few years we have had a few dud games against zero teams to finish the season and I'm not convinced that those didn't play a factor in sleepy Game 1 starts.
Even if we have a spot locked in, playing a better opponent will force us into playing the right way.
Some people like those shitty mundane jobs though (compared to the rest of us). They're usually accountants or computer geeks and programmers. I think they probably find it exciting and challenging.I know they do...but they still have to enter all that shit in and some of them are moving targets until the very end. I am sure dozens of schedules are generated before final sign-off is done. And then that is another thing....I assume each franchise has to sign-off on their schedule. Getting them to do that and dealing with any grievances they may have which may naturally affect other teams and their agreeance and of course other facility commitments etc...
It would just be a shitty mundane job.
Worried we’re going to burn out Skinner for playoffs.
I don’t know what GMKH is up to but if there is an expectation that we’re winning anything with 97 & 29 together we’re in for a vast disappointment.
The team definitely needs all the extra days they can get playing 37 games in 72 days. That’s a stupid amount of hockey. Such a weird schedule playing so little in the first half and then dumping it all onto the next half. But that coukd be a good thing. Despite the grind it gets players in a groove and a rhyme. Something players like Mcdavid loves.We started playing good again and now we get extra days off.
Worried we’re going to burn out Skinner for playoffs.
I don’t know what GMKH is up to but if there is an expectation that we’re winning anything with 97 & 29 together we’re in for a vast disappointment.
Starting Saturday there will be a stretch of 6games in 9nights= Nutty schedule.Then we fly to Seattle to play a Saturday afternoon game, rush to the airport to fly home and play Pittsburgh Sunday evening.