Lightning Morning News: Is there a schedule for 84 games in the future?

Pierre Lebrun started his latest column for The athlete talk about the schedule of the next year. It sounds like the league and the NHLPA find out the schedule of 2025-26, which includes an all-star game and an Olympic break. With a preliminary start date on October 7 and an expected end date around June 21, it will be another compact schedule. Get ready for a few back-to-backs!

Despite the not yet completed schedule (you expect it to be announced in July), speculation has already started what the 2026-27 season will look like. It will be the first season under the new CBA and it sounds as if it could look a little different from what we are used to.

First of all, they would start in September. The league and the NHLPA both expressed interest in eliminating some pre -season games and adding two other regular season games. If you move the start of the season up and keep the same end date of the end of June for the Stanley Cup final, the league would still enable the league to spread things a little more and to give the players a few more days during the season.

A further change in the schedule could include more division games, while each team is eliminated in every arena every year. This has no unanimous support among the teams, especially for those who rely on annual visits from popular teams to increase their participation.

Exciting the schedule (and possibly the playoff format) part of the continued CBA talks.

Flash messages

Blitz loses to flyers in the shootout, 4-3 [Raw Charge]

Not the result we were looking for, but another point in the books.

Snack bars from the 4: 3 victory of the Flyers [Broad Street Hockey]

A look from the other side of the ice cream when our friends summarize the game at Broad Street Hockey.

Flash back a step instead of coming forward in Philadelphia [Lightning Insider]

The game collapses and complains about the lack of shots from the flash (only 14 at 5V5).

Lightning takes a point against flyers, but come to the third game in a row [Tampa Bay Times]

An “unexcused” gate means that the flash gets the flyer no more than the loss of loss.

NHL News

In the sabers that have never ending reconstruction [ESPN]

It has been 14 years and at least two conversions since the Sabres did the playoffs. Is there an end in sight?

Candidate of the year candidate of the year?

Connor Zary suspended two games [Flames Nation]

Zary will miss the next two games thanks to an elbow to Elias Pettersons (defender not forward).

Insiderhandel: Clubs are looking for clarity about CHL, NCAA -Signierenwinden [TSN]

With the decision that CHL players can now play in the NCAA, there will be some questions about the signing times for players who choose this path. Expect that it will be cleared in the next CBA.

Ben Bishop affects the role of player development [Dallas Stars]

The old friend Ben Bishop plays a new role in hockey because it helps to develop the perspectives of the stars.