NHL Games Per Season: New Extension Could Go From 82 to 84 Games!
The fans have spoken, and they are bored. Numbers do not lie. And many sports entities are switching things up in order to try to increase viewership as well as interest. The latest movement? Taking NHL Games Per Season from 82 to 84.
Is this a really good move? Or is this just howling at the wind during a windstorm? Well, it may not seem like a lot of difference. However, adding those two games alone with drastically change the scheduling of the NHL.
The goal here is to get more fans or reignite interest in the game of hockey. By tacking onto the season; this gives NHL lovers more content and more chances to see great rivalry games.
Rivalries in sports is just great business anyway. Think about the kind of attention that Brady versus Manning used to cause in the NFL. Some went as far as to call those games the “Second Super Bowl.” Why? It is because that many people; even from other fandoms; were tuning into these heart-pounding games to see who would win and conquer.
Rivalries equal more eyes. More eyes and attention equals more revenue. Therefore, it is easy to see why a NHL season extension to achieve this feat is something the hockey organization as well as many sports leagues are looking into carefully.
NHL Games Per Season: New Extension Could Go From 82 to 84 Games!
So is this extension a lock? Not just quite. Although the idea is being tossed around like a rag doll, it will still be met on next March.
Nevertheless, this is a very serious move. Season extensions do in fact come with some repercussions. The obvious being injuries.
Yes, players already push their bodies to the max to win games during a regular length season. Adding more days just increases the risk of something going wrong for an athlete. That can effect an athlete’s career; and losing a player to injury can effect the team and their ability to win.
Furthermore, athletes ARE the product. They sell the sports to fans and put butts in seats, move merch and give teams the viewership they need to command more advertising money. Therefore, is it reckless to play and push the product further than their limits? Could be.
However, this idea of having a longer season can prove not to be disastrous. Case in point, with the NFL going from 16 games to 17 with one bye week (18 week period). Things seem to be working out just swell (during the 2021 first extended NFL season viewership increased by 10%, averaging 17 million viewers). So good in fact that the NFL is already considering bumping up to an 18 game season by 2025.
This means a bump up in scheduling can work. Will the NHL be able to experience such results too? Only time will tell.
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