Double header, but it’ll be 2 different squads for each team
PeopleBeStrange
Is there something wrong with that ?
BRADVV87
Oilers-Flames, Oilers-Canucks, and Flames-Canucks do this every pre season also. They’ll play in off site games too like Penticton, Banff, Red Deer, and other small towns in Alberta and BC.
Phogna_Bologna_Pogna
We Will be at that Coyotes/ Blues game!!
wjpd236
Probably a split squad game
Empire2k5
Nothing news worthy here?
No_Gas_4956
Two games no one cares about.
dalcer
happens every year in pre season, they do split squad games and have a mix of roster players and prospects in each game. helps to get looks at more players than if they didnt do this
MMA_Fanboy082384
Split squad.
Few-Tradition6384
Extra games for tryouts as well as extra tickets to sell.
mgnorthcott
Yup. If it’s early in the preseason, it’ll be a jumble of players, usually the bare minimum of NHL vets they have to put on, and a coach’s handshake agreement that it’ll be mostly ECHL players for the first, and ahl players the next. The star line will probably be a test of the 3rd or 4th NHL line.
If it’s later in the preseason, it’ll be who they want for AHL, and who they want for NHL. Those tend to be home and home games rather than doubleheaders though.
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Double header, but it’ll be 2 different squads for each team
Is there something wrong with that ?
Oilers-Flames, Oilers-Canucks, and Flames-Canucks do this every pre season also. They’ll play in off site games too like Penticton, Banff, Red Deer, and other small towns in Alberta and BC.
We Will be at that Coyotes/ Blues game!!
Probably a split squad game
Nothing news worthy here?
Two games no one cares about.
happens every year in pre season, they do split squad games and have a mix of roster players and prospects in each game. helps to get looks at more players than if they didnt do this
Split squad.
Extra games for tryouts as well as extra tickets to sell.
Yup. If it’s early in the preseason, it’ll be a jumble of players, usually the bare minimum of NHL vets they have to put on, and a coach’s handshake agreement that it’ll be mostly ECHL players for the first, and ahl players the next. The star line will probably be a test of the 3rd or 4th NHL line.
If it’s later in the preseason, it’ll be who they want for AHL, and who they want for NHL. Those tend to be home and home games rather than doubleheaders though.
About as low effort of a post as I’ve ever seen
A split squad game for the ages
split squad