NHL considering big regular season schedule change next year | Sports
August 24, 2025
NHL considering big regular season schedule change next year | Sports
15 comments
September start would be great if it means the season ends at the start of June rather than creeping to within a week of the FA frenzy on Jul 1.
Good and end it by mid May
Hoping they might some day revamp the playoff system so that it isn’t team vs same team so often.
Hmm, not sure how I feel about that. Generally the schedule avoids overlap with the MLB regular season, which I like.
I say start the season on new years. When the ball drops, the puck drops.
Hockey starting sooner? Sign me up thank u v much
It’s asinine to be playing hockey in June, and I’m still not sold that this won’t lead to extending the season even farther into that month than it already is.
Training camp should open the Tuesday after (American) Labor Day.
You know if you think about it, in a way the guys who don’t make the playoffs or drop out early win extra vacation time. Now let’s say you won the cup and it dragged until mid June, you’ve got 4-6 weeks before you have to report to ~~fat camp~~ training camp whereas the other guys have been chilling since sometime in April. This ignores if you’re a superstar and you gotta go in to shoot a few commercials, in which you gotta balance that into your vacation.
Of course for these salaries you’d have no problem doing them I assume.
As an obsessed fan of hockey, I’m totally on board for this. Only 46 more sleeps until the Wild vs. Blues.
You do have to wonder about the economics of this though. I always thought the later the season started, the less competing they have to do with viewership against college and pro football. Curious if there’s ownership by in on this idea.
Less games not more. Greedy fucking owners.
My unpopular opinion: Regular season should be 80 games or even less. The games would be more meaningful. Less fatigue and chances of injuries for players. And playoffs would start and end earlier. As much as I love hockey, I think it’s ridiculous that the playoffs go well into June. This year, it ended a mere 4 days from the first day of summer. It should be done in May.
Only change will be two more games and a September start. Suits don’t care when season ends. For a lot of fans of teams that don’t make playoffs it does end in April so I don’t think they’ll make it end sooner
I would prefer the season start at the 3rd week of September than 2nd week to mid October.
It’s been getting ridiculous with the cup final going into mid to late June.
Would like to see I start mid September. I’d like to combine some Baseball/Hockey trips
15 comments
September start would be great if it means the season ends at the start of June rather than creeping to within a week of the FA frenzy on Jul 1.
Good and end it by mid May
Hoping they might some day revamp the playoff system so that it isn’t team vs same team so often.
Hmm, not sure how I feel about that. Generally the schedule avoids overlap with the MLB regular season, which I like.
I say start the season on new years. When the ball drops, the puck drops.
Hockey starting sooner? Sign me up thank u v much
It’s asinine to be playing hockey in June, and I’m still not sold that this won’t lead to extending the season even farther into that month than it already is.
Training camp should open the Tuesday after (American) Labor Day.
You know if you think about it, in a way the guys who don’t make the playoffs or drop out early win extra vacation time. Now let’s say you won the cup and it dragged until mid June, you’ve got 4-6 weeks before you have to report to ~~fat camp~~ training camp whereas the other guys have been chilling since sometime in April. This ignores if you’re a superstar and you gotta go in to shoot a few commercials, in which you gotta balance that into your vacation.
Of course for these salaries you’d have no problem doing them I assume.
As an obsessed fan of hockey, I’m totally on board for this. Only 46 more sleeps until the Wild vs. Blues.
You do have to wonder about the economics of this though. I always thought the later the season started, the less competing they have to do with viewership against college and pro football. Curious if there’s ownership by in on this idea.
Less games not more. Greedy fucking owners.
My unpopular opinion: Regular season should be 80 games or even less. The games would be more meaningful. Less fatigue and chances of injuries for players. And playoffs would start and end earlier. As much as I love hockey, I think it’s ridiculous that the playoffs go well into June. This year, it ended a mere 4 days from the first day of summer. It should be done in May.
Only change will be two more games and a September start. Suits don’t care when season ends. For a lot of fans of teams that don’t make playoffs it does end in April so I don’t think they’ll make it end sooner
I would prefer the season start at the 3rd week of September than 2nd week to mid October.
It’s been getting ridiculous with the cup final going into mid to late June.
Would like to see I start mid September. I’d like to combine some Baseball/Hockey trips