While everyone else gave up hope when the Winter Classic got canceled, I kept up my dangerous optimism which is the only the thing that has kept me sane during these horrid circumstances. My optimism is so dangerous that I still think that we can have a full 82 game season, no matter how late we start. Just hear me out. We have a couple of strategies here, all of which involve a double header. The first method is to have half-length games and just double the stats at the end and have the home team host two games that evening. This would create very exciting half paced games and would almost make up for when we didn't have hockey.
The second thing we can do is have full double or triple headers on a given day. But Jimmy, wouldn't that create problems for markets with NBA teams? As a Washington fan, I can assure you that most NBA teams aren't fully utilizing the space anyway and would not mind letting hockey players use the arena for ice rather than hardwood. This also creates a great opportunity for us to finally start combining the sports of hockey and basketball, which will further lend itself to value added markets like my Space Jam/Mighty Ducks fanfic that will finally hold merit. Michael Jordan and Emilio Estevez in the same movie? Yes!
The biggest problem with crunching so many games into such a tight schedule is travel. The third and final method would be to host the first half of the season over the course of a month in a tournamentesque format at the unused facilities at the London Olympics. It's true that none of those were hockey facilities. I think they would be easy enough to convert and I think it would give soccer fans a chance to see what a real sport looks like. Hockey is like rugby on ice. This would be great for recruiting.
This is completely doable. If not this season, then next season, when I will demand a baseball schedule of hockey games.
The second thing we can do is have full double or triple headers on a given day. But Jimmy, wouldn't that create problems for markets with NBA teams? As a Washington fan, I can assure you that most NBA teams aren't fully utilizing the space anyway and would not mind letting hockey players use the arena for ice rather than hardwood. This also creates a great opportunity for us to finally start combining the sports of hockey and basketball, which will further lend itself to value added markets like my Space Jam/Mighty Ducks fanfic that will finally hold merit. Michael Jordan and Emilio Estevez in the same movie? Yes!
The biggest problem with crunching so many games into such a tight schedule is travel. The third and final method would be to host the first half of the season over the course of a month in a tournamentesque format at the unused facilities at the London Olympics. It's true that none of those were hockey facilities. I think they would be easy enough to convert and I think it would give soccer fans a chance to see what a real sport looks like. Hockey is like rugby on ice. This would be great for recruiting.
This is completely doable. If not this season, then next season, when I will demand a baseball schedule of hockey games.
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