Geography dictates that Western Conference teams generally travel much farther than those in the East, but thanks to a 48-game schedule that is limited to intra-conference games, the disparity between East & West has never been greater.
The Los Angeles Kings and Buffalo Sabres are the big winners today with the NHL's release of the 2012-2013 Regular Season schedule, when you examine the travel burden faced by all 30 teams.
A publicly available spreadsheet breaks down the entire NHL 2011-2012 regular season, along with Goals For and Goals Against per Game information for each team.
While NHL teams will face the toughest travel burden during the upcoming season?
The impact of a team in Winnipeg participating in the NHL's Southeast Division creates a huge travel issue for not just the relocated team, but their division rivals as well.
Playing games on back-to-back nights is a grueling aspect of the NHL season. But which teams will face the most opponents playing on no rest in 2010-2011?
One grueling aspect of professional hockey is the dreaded "back to back" set of games, so which teams will face the toughest ones in the 2010-11 season?
For years, arguments over the toughest NHL schedule were founded in ignorance and partisanship, but for the fourth consecutive season, I'd like to present the NHL Super Schedule to help inform your debates.
In the chase for the Stanley Cup Playoffs, how tough is your favorite NHL team's remaining schedule?
Perhaps the most brutal challenge an NHL team faces is to play on consecutive nights, traveling from town to town. Here's a look at the Top 10 Toughest Back-to-Back games on the 2009-10 NHL schedule.
