Isles schedule note: March to the finish?

One thing that immediately sticks out in the schedule is the bizarre March schedule.

The Isles will play 16 games in March (matching the franchise mark for any month), including 4 sets of back-to-backs.  Eleven of those games will be on the road -- the first month in franchise history that they have ever played 11 road games.

They'll get that back a bit in April, playing 5 home games -- tying most in history except for 1995 (lockout season).

Of course Messers Bettman and Fehr could make all of this irrelevant.

 

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