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Read on Facebook the Quebec Leauge reducing schedule to 64 games next season do we follow suit.
Read on Facebook the Quebec Leauge reducing schedule to 64 games next season do we follow suit.
Is there an article you could link up? Would be nice to read what the reduction accomplishes for the Q to see if there is any benefit for the O.
Won't happenI am hoping for a minor tweak in the Icedogs schedule reducing two games we play against Erie and adding two with Oshawa
From the Soo's perspective, the league does a pretty good job with the schedule. One thing I might suggest though is that playing 26 out of conference games a year is probably too many. For a team like the Soo who has extra rivalry games vs. Sudbury (+4) and North Bay (+2), it means we have a significant decrease in inter-division/inter-conference games.
I like the rivalry games, but if we do that many rivalry games something has give. Maybe there are a couple Eastern Conference teams that we only play once in a given season (either home or away), and then each year rotate which teams those will be? I'm not sure where the sweet spot is (24 out of conference?), but I feel that 26 out of conference games are too many.
But really, it's just a nit-pick. As I said, the league does a pretty good job overall, from a Soo perspective.
162 like MLB
162 like MLB
About 1/3 of all games are East vs West. You think we need more?Need more east vs west
More so on the line of 3 games instead of 2 (east vs west) where the teams alternate the 2 home games each year. owensound 7-8 times a year feels like a lot.About 1/3 of all games are East vs West. You think we need more?
More so on the line of 3 games instead of 2 (east vs west) where the teams alternate the 2 home games each year. owensound 7-8 times a year feels like a lot.
Agreed. Was just looking at it from a entertainment standpointIncreases travel costs increase across the board including bussing costs, travel time and perhaps another night or two in a hotel. While travel is considerably more daunting in the Q and especially the Dub there's no way anyone signs off on increased expenditures that this would entail, profit rules over fairness in hockey and everything else.
Agreed. Was just looking at it from a entertainment standpoint
You could also slip in a few extra games on long weekends, and if you're ignoring the Christmas break, you could add some volume there to put in a few more games and get close to the current total.Now... something to consider here... when you back out the School day games, every team with the exception of Oshawa draws better on weekends (Friday, Saturday, Sunday) than on week days.
If you start the season the second week of September and go to the last weekend in March and schedule two games for every team just on those weekend days, that's 60 games. I didn't factor in a Christmas shut down, which can just be one weekend.. so 58 games. This doesn't factor in adding any 3 in 3s, but maybe there's an opportunity to trim the schedule, and still turn a profit for teams simply by making it a weekend only league, until the playoffs anyway.
So Hamilton/Brantford would become Hamilton/Brantford/Niagara Ice Bull Dogs. Quite a handle.If it were all about entertainment, they’d get rid of Niagara Ice Dogs as a franchise and allow the Steelheads ownership to move there! Or get rid of both of them and move Hamilton/Brantford there. Niagara is a gong show.