willy702
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Regardless of Game 7, the NHL should have released a full 2nd Round schedule by now. They are always so 2nd rate, it's really embarrassing.
To a degree this is true, but the NHL has a strategy. They normally get more game 7s so that went against them, but they did get one with two marquee franchises that they wanted to give a platform to. Turned out to be an entertaining game so it worked out for their interests. They wisely don't want that platform shared by game 1s because keep in mind the NHL has a very rigid playoff window. The networks are paying for a certain layout of games considering the importance of ratings in May and the unimportance of network ratings in April and June they have set up their schedule in a way to maximize ratings for the networks.