How Many Games Does an NHL Team Play?
In an NHL season, each team plays a total of 82 games. This includes 41 home games and 41 away games.
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An NHL team plays 82 games in a regular season. This is made up of 41 home games and 41 away games. Each team plays every other team in the league at least once, and some teams play each other twice.
Pre-season, regular season, and post-season
An NHL team plays a total of 82 games in a season, which is divided into a pre-season, regular season, and post-season. The pre-season consists of four to eight exhibition games that are used to tune up the team before the start of the regular season. The regular season is made up of 62 games, and each team plays every other team in the league at least twice. Finally, the post-season is made up of the Stanley Cup Playoffs, which is a best-of-seven tournament that determines the champion of the NHL.
Home and away games
In an NHL season, each team plays an 82-game regular season. In a typical NHL season, each team plays 41 home games and 41 away games.
Back-to-back games
There are a lot of back-to-back games in the NHL. A team will often play two games in two nights, sometimes even three games in four nights. This can be grueling for the players, especially when they have to travel between cities.
The schedule is designed so that each team plays every other team at least twice, home and away. In a normal season, each team would play 82 games. But because of the pandemic, the NHL has shortened the season to 56 games.
Back-to-backs are not as common in the playoffs, because the schedule is more spread out and there are more days off between games.
