italianbeef
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I know it's probably immensely difficult to work this out given that arenas are multi-purpose, but when I see things like the Hawks and Isles doing a home and home on back to back nights, that makes little sense.
A couple things I think they could do to help alleviate all the travel, which affects a team like the Hawks the most, since they're the eastern-most team in the western conference.
Alternate home/away by year for interconference matchups. We're only playing the Islanders twice, so play them both in NY or both in Chicago. Alternate every year. Play your two games in two nights with only one team traveling once.
Bunch intra-conference games into series. The Hawks are flying to LA twice, the Kings are flying to Chicago three times. Get them all done in one trip.
So the circus trip might involve three flights (out to LA, up to SJ, home to Chi) instead of seven. Or better yet, Anaheim and LA. Then you're done with both teams on the road after one trip. They'll still have to go out west multiple times, but won't be hopping between ciities after every game. Imagine playing the Kings three times in five days vs. three teams in different cities. You'd have more practice time as well because you wouldn't be shuttling back and forth from airports.
Thoughts?
A couple things I think they could do to help alleviate all the travel, which affects a team like the Hawks the most, since they're the eastern-most team in the western conference.
Alternate home/away by year for interconference matchups. We're only playing the Islanders twice, so play them both in NY or both in Chicago. Alternate every year. Play your two games in two nights with only one team traveling once.
Bunch intra-conference games into series. The Hawks are flying to LA twice, the Kings are flying to Chicago three times. Get them all done in one trip.
So the circus trip might involve three flights (out to LA, up to SJ, home to Chi) instead of seven. Or better yet, Anaheim and LA. Then you're done with both teams on the road after one trip. They'll still have to go out west multiple times, but won't be hopping between ciities after every game. Imagine playing the Kings three times in five days vs. three teams in different cities. You'd have more practice time as well because you wouldn't be shuttling back and forth from airports.
Thoughts?
