Two more regular-season NHL games in exchange for fewer pre-season games? Yup. Sign us up for that yesterday.
With the NHL adding two regular-season games to the schedule starting next season, it was mandated that teams will henceforth play only four pre-season games. Not only does it truncate a pre-season that is boring, long and pointless, but it might also reduce incidents such as the one Sunday in Ottawa, when Toronto Maple Leafs wannabe tough guy Marshall Rifai took a ridiculously stupid and reckless run at Senators forward Ridly Greig.
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