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Thanks that was most informative.

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> "GoMavsGo" <gomavz.DeleteThis@mavvz.com> writes:
>
>>but I watch from time to time.. could someone explain something...
>
>>Does a team play the other teams in their division an equal amount of
>>time?
>
> After the lockout ended, the NHL reworked its 82-game schedule: a team
> will
> face its four divisional rivals eight times each (32 games), all teams in
> the
> other two divisions of their conference four times (40 games), and will
> play
> all five teams of one division in the other conference once on the road,
> along
> with five home games against all teams of another division in the other
> conference (10 games total), with the two inter-conference divisions
> rotated
> so that in three seasons, a team will have faced the other 29 teams in the
> league at least once at home or on the road.
>
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> LAST GAME: San Antonio 5, Houston 4 (SO) (October 15)
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"GoMavsGo" <gomavz.RemoveThis@mavvz.com> writes:

>"The Chief Instigator" <patrick.RemoveThis@fnord.io.com> wrote in message
>news:szky7rbwn5m.fsf@fnord.io.com...
>> "GoMavsGo" <gomavz.RemoveThis@mavvz.com> writes:

>>>but I watch from time to time.. could someone explain something...

>>>Does a team play the other teams in their division an equal amount of
>>>time?

>> After the lockout ended, the NHL reworked its 82-game schedule: a team
>> will face its four divisional rivals eight times each (32 games), all teams
>> in the other two divisions of their conference four times (40 games), and
>> will play all five teams of one division in the other conference once on
>> the road, along with five home games against all teams of another division
>> in the other conference (10 games total), with the two inter-conference
>> divisions rotated so that in three seasons, a team will have faced the
>> other 29 teams in the league at least once at home or on the road.

>Thanks that was most informative.

You're welcome, and it's better than what the NHL's top farm league (the AHL)
does to its scheduling. There are currently four divisions in two conferences
in the AHL, but the emphasis is on divisional play, of which Houston is an
example: in the 80-game regular schedule, there will be ten games against
Omaha, Iowa, and Peoria, then eight against Chicago and Milwaukee, and twelve
against San Antonio. That leaves 22 games, 16 of which will be against the
six teams of the other Western Conference division (two to each team, with
four for old IHL rivals Manitoba and Grand Rapids) - and the other six are
home-and-homes with Hartford, Worcester, and Manchester. The drawback is that
in this sixth AHL season in Houston, there are still several AHL teams who
have *never* faced the Aeros. (Springfield, Albany, Portland, Lowell, and
Binghamton have never faced off against them, and Hershey only in a playoff
series in the Aeros' first AHL season in 2001-02.) Such are the drawbacks of
having 27 teams in a minor league...

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