What is the season length?
For the winter season, there are normally 22 to 25 games, depending on which rink the games are played at (due to rink scheduling). Games usually begin mid to late September, and the regular season ends in mid April. For the summer season, there are usually 10 games. The season begins in early June, and ends in mid August. How is the schedule designed? The schedule is set up to have the teams play each other an equal number of times. It is also designed to try and keep the numbers of early, mid and late games as spread out and equal as possible. Please understand that with a 23 game schedule and a 6 team division, for example, a team will play some teams more than others. The league strives to keep it as balanced as possible. The same goes for the game times, one team may play more late games, but it will be a very small differential. Games for each division will almost always occur on the same night of the week throughout the season. It is possible, however, that an occasional game (i
