Thought I'd look at the whole schedule assuming it would be balanced by end of the year, and oh boy was I wrong.
Turns out 9 times this year Calgary will get a home game vs. a team coming off a back to back the night before in Edmonton. Opponents are Pittsburgh, Florida, St. Louis, Islanders, Detroit, Rangers, Boston, Toronto and Anaheim. 6 of the 9 being playoff teams from last year with one more that is only a season removed from back to back Conference Finals.
Only 2 times will Edmonton get a team coming off a game the night before in Calgary. Opponents are Philadelphia and San Jose. Both teams weren't within a sniff of playoffs last year.
Quite the discrepancy. Will look at Vancouver next.
So Vancouver vs. Edmonton is balanced. Each gets two teams the night after the opponents played in the opposite barn. Once each the opponent is each other, for the other Vancouver gets Minnesota, and Edmonton gets Tampa.
Vancouver vs. Calgary. Calgary gets 1 game vs. someone who played in Vancouver the previous night. Vancouver gets none that played in Calgary the previous night.
Seattle gets 4 games where they played in Calgary the night before (twice Calgary themself), Calgary get none that played in Seattle the night before.
Seattle and Edmonton get no back to backs from each other.
Seattle vs. Vancouver is similar to Edmonton vs. Calgary in that Seattle get 7 teams that played in Vancouver the night before, where Vancouver only gets 4.
Winnipeg vs. Edmonton, Winnipeg gets Edmonton the night after Edmonton has a home game and Edmonton gets Arizona the night after a Winnipeg game. Winnipeg also gets Calgary the night after a Calgary home game.
Looks like Seattle and Calgary benefit from these scenarios much more than Edmonton or Vancouver.
Calgary gets 10 teams on the second night, Seattle 11 teams, Vancouver 6 and Edmonton 5. But Edmonton themselves becomes team playing in the other teams barn the next night twice and Vancouver once.