The number of back to backs mean nothing. These are professional athletes that are trained to be able to play two in two nights with travel.
The team that should be complaining about a bad schedule is the team that has been forced to play the most road games at this point and that team is the Avalanche. We have 19 road games played, 2 more than anyone in the league, compared to only 11 home games 2 less than anyone in the league. Multiple long trips to the East coast, longest home stand has only been 2 games.
It's been a joke of a schedule so far. The only we can say that hasn't been terrible is the fact we haven't had tons of back to back games. Our guys look tired. The last two road have we've been dragging and I can't even fault the team since all they've been doing all season is playing road games.