Leafs 2021/2022 Schedule in 10 game chunks

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[Joe S.]

The schedule for the nhl is so weird. I don?t get the disparity in games played among all the teams.

 

[L K]

The schedule for the nhl is so weird. I don?t get the disparity in games played among all the teams.

Colorado with 12GP so far.  They will hit 18 games by the end of November.  They then play 16 games in December.

So 16 games in 31 days after playing 18 games in 49 games.

 

[Frank E]

The schedule for the nhl is so weird. I don?t get the disparity in games played among all the teams.

Colorado with 12GP so far.  They will hit 18 games by the end of November.  They then play 16 games in December.

So 16 games in 31 days after playing 18 games in 49 games.

Oof.

 

[CarltonTheBear]

Colorado with 12GP so far.  They will hit 18 games by the end of November.  They then play 16 games in December.

So 16 games in 31 days after playing 18 games in 49 games.

And that's with a league-wide 3 day break for Christmas. So they somehow managed to squeeze 16 games into 28 eligible playing days in the month.

 

[Joe S.]

I was just looking at the leafs schedule and I?m a little confused - why are they only playing Boston and Florida 3 times and the rest of of the division 4 times?

Divisional standards matter for the playoffs so why isn?t the schedule balanced?

 

[bustaheims]

I was just looking at the leafs schedule and I?m a little confused - why are they only playing Boston and Florida 3 times and the rest of of the division 4 times?

Divisional standards matter for the playoffs so why isn?t the schedule balanced?

Seattle threw a wrench into the league's standard schedule balancing. To keep things as they were, they either needed to add 2 games to the schedule or takeaway 6 (so they play within their division 4 times each, and twice against the rest of the league). The league clearly decided intra-division games were the easiest to sacrifice (I might have scrapped 2 interconference games instead, but I get why the league might not want that imbalance again).

 

[Joe S.]

Thx for the explanation. Well that just makes me even more annoyed with the playoff format.

Why even bother with divisions. Just have 2 conferences and be done with it.

 

[L K]

I was just looking at the leafs schedule and I?m a little confused - why are they only playing Boston and Florida 3 times and the rest of of the division 4 times?

Divisional standards matter for the playoffs so why isn?t the schedule balanced?

Seattle threw a wrench into the league's standard schedule balancing. To keep things as they were, they either needed to add 2 games to the schedule or takeaway 6 (so they play within their division 4 times each, and twice against the rest of the league). The league clearly decided intra-division games were the easiest to sacrifice (I might have scrapped 2 interconference games instead, but I get why the league might not want that imbalance again).

Instead we now have an unbalanced playoff format against teams that you play minimal games against.  I'm not sure I understand that rationale. 

Finishing 3rd in your division carries more weight than your overall performance against the rest of the league.  If anything there should be more divisional games if the division is going to be heavily weighted for the first two rounds of the playoffs.

 

[Joe S.]

I agree with you but I don?t give a crap about divisions. Top 8 teams in the conference and that?s it. Divisions and divisions winners are pointless.

But I?ve long given up on the NHL doing anything logical.

 

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[L K]

This might be an unpopular opinion but I like the second stretch of 10 games.

 

[Zee]

This might be an unpopular opinion but I like the second stretch of 10 games.

Let's see how the Leafs respond to the Penguins after losing 7-1 to them last time.

 

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I think we can all agree this is the kind of chunk we can get behind.