NHL Trade Deadline Pushed Back

Posted by Mother Pucker on October 29th, 2008

Not really major news, but the NHL and its board of governors have agreed to push the NHL trade deadline back a day from Tuesday March 3rd, to Wednesday March 4th, 2009.

Apparently there are 12 games scheduled for the 3rd, and only two scheduled for the 4th, so this will probably make it easier for GMs and teams to concentrate on their games, and on the players they are pursuing, and dumping. Its funny how they could fix this scheduling faux-pas, but didn’t realize that they missed a chance for a few games the day after all 30 teams played. Doesn’t anyone else think that any new fans that were brought on board this past Saturday may have been interested in a game or two on Sunday? It’s not like the teams don’t already play on consecutive nights, so I don’t see why the NHL would make it’s schedule that way. Oh well…