Bye weeks in the NHL "have been oddly staggered this year, with some coming in December and others still waiting on the schedule," but next year there will be "only two bye weeks, featuring roughly half the league in both," according to Kevin McGran of the TORONTO STAR. NHL Deputy Commissioner Bill Daly said that the bye week will be re-evaluated after the '17-18 season with "one caveat." If the NHL "decides ultimately to go to the Olympics, there will be no bye week at all." The NHLPA "floated the idea of linking the bye weeks to the all-star game, with half of the league getting their days off in the week before the game, and half getting their break immediately after." But Daly said that that "isn’t being looked at." McGran notes the bye weeks "make for a compressed schedule, a lot more of three games in four nights, or five in eight." But it is a "trade players will make" (TORONTO STAR, 2/21).
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