What do we want as hockey fans? To have as much NHL action as possible, of course! In light of that common goal, it’s understandable that fans wait eagerly for the schedule of the new season to be unveiled. This year, when the league announced its 1,312-game calendar, two dates stood apart from the rest. On October 11 and 28, all 32 teams were slated to hit the ice simultaneously and all across the US. But while that oddity was definitely a source of glee initially, fans are now realizing what the North American hockey apex body had to trade off to make it happen.
Oilers Daily took to X on October 10 to vent their frustration over the NHL’s weekend plans. “Whoever is in charge of the NHL scheduling needs to be fired,” fumed the Edmonton fan-account. Why, you ask? Well, it seems like the fact that the NHL’s gutsy move to play all of the franchises on the same date is taking away the chances of an exciting Friday night, something some fans could have done without.
“Sure, all 32 teams playing on Saturday is going to be great, but having not a single game on the first Friday night of the season is absurd,” you can almost envision the person behind the social media update rolling their eyes. While most fans were clamoring over how they’d have to spend a quiet start to the weekend, others were even more agitated over how there wouldn’t be a lot of hockey on the day before they got back to work. “Then only 1 game again on Sunday. F*****g weird scheduling,” one fan was definitely feeling the lack of action already.
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