After a long playoff season

[shoe 165]

So here we are almost mid june, and if the WCF or ECF for that matter had gone another game or 2 it could have been a week later into june the cup was finally won.

Would you be for playing back to back games for the first 4 games of a series?

Eg lets just say round 1

- play friday night saturday night at home back to back games 1 and 2 lets say this is March 6 and 7 for argument sake

- play tuesday wednesday away games 3 and 4 march 10, 11

- play home friday game 5 March 13

- away sunday game 6 March 15

- home tuesday game 7 March 17

So some pros and cons I can think of for doing this...

Pros

- series could be over in as little as a week or stretch out to just over a week

- Ice surfaces may not be as crappy in May than June

- back to back games would be good for visitors from out of town rather than seeing one game on a weekend you could go for 2 I could see promo departments getting creative with this having something like a dinner hotel 2 games package.

Cons

- could be grueling playing back to back (extended roster eg players from the juniors could help this eg black aces if available)

- might lead to fatigue and cause injuries

- less time to heal from injuries

- could wreck peoples weekend plans eg family members who dont get sports

- could be a scheduling problem especially if teams share a building with an NBA team or have concerts at the same venue.

[Zack is Great 14]

personally, i thought the short turn around and back to back games was a travesty. The Stanley Cup Finals should be about who is the better team, not who managed to get their with the least injuries. Give a team a guaranteed 8-9 days off from the end of their conference finals series, and I think you'd see a lot tighet games being played.

as for changes during the regular season, hockey is a brutal sport. Playing games like you outlined just seems to be a recipe for disaster.