The back to back nature of the draft lottery, the Stanley Cup playoffs and finals, Award Season, the Draft, and Free Agency day creates a needless crunch and has events overshadowing and overlapping each others.
You can tell the league, the teams, the journos and to a lesser extent the players are all rushed as the league tries to keep fans interested and engaged in the whole proceedings.
Combined with all the travel required for teams involved in only half of these, it's no wonder some teams have asked to make the draft virtual.
How would you go about fixing this?
Man, I miss this goal song. Still the best. The crowd would go nuts singing the OoOooO-Oh part and the whole Bell centre would echo from it. Made it feel like 50 000 people chanting.
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