Four regular-season games will be held overseas thanks to last years successful games between the Los Angeles Kings and Anaheim Ducks, held in London.
The New York Rangers will open the season playing two games in Prague, Czech Republic against the Tampa Bay Lightening, while the Ottawa Senators play the Pittsburgh Penguins in Stockholm, Sweden.
There have been rumblings that the NHL might want to make an European division, and add them to the NHL. Really? The NHL just got over re-balancing their terrible schedule because it was too rough on Western Conference teams playing one night in Vancouver, the next in Dallas, and the following in Chicago. Does Gary Bettman really think the NHLPA will fly, literally, for a that same schedule followed by a nice flight over to Moscow? Please.
Mr. Bettman,
Please worry about fixing your games image in the United States and actually draw a decent TV rating here first(yea, right) before you go and expand it to Europe.
Remember what happened last time the league expanded to all these great cities that were just ohhh so booming for hockey? Pheonix, who cares? Nashville? Please move them to Hamilton already. Carolina? Should have stayed in Hartford. Hell, maybe we'd get to see some more of those cool full-pant uniforms of the '70s. Atlanta...enough said.
Instead of worrying about what European city is going to host a MEANINGFUL regular season game, how about you worry about the officiating, and how terribly inconsistent it is, or maybe worry about getting some useful TV exposure.
Sincerely,
Frank Castaldi
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