Back-to-back road tests at Vegas then Colorado

Vegas and Colorado back to back, and half the league would already be crying about travel 😱 not our boys apparently lol. Utah the night before too?? That's three games in four nights, my legs hurt just reading the schedule 🤬🔥 Buffalo at home on the 15th better be a statement after that road trip, no excuses, Scotiabank gotta be LOUD. I remember dragging myself to work on a scaff job after a HNIC doubleheader, barely alive, so if these guys can't show up vs the Avs I don't wanna hear it 💪 through thick and thin eh, LETS GO 🏒🍁

Back-to-back altitude then sea level, that Vegas-Colorado split screams to me the books will shade the total on the second night and leave the moneyline fat. I took 50 bucks on the Leafs puck line in Denver last season and it didn't land because the goalie was pulled before warmups even posted 😭 check who's starting Oct 9 before you touch anything.

Honestly with 28th place vibes I'm just picturing our guys in Denver gasping like me on a stairmaster after one flight 🤣 Vegas Friday then altitude Saturday, my lungs hurt just reading the schedule. Buffalo Oct 15 will feel like a spa day after that, eh 😂

Don't laugh but what does "shade the total" mean exactly, FrontRow? 😅 And if we're 28th, maybe expecting anything from Vegas-Colorado is the daft part, no? 🤔

KevArmy buddy, being 28th is exactly WHY I want this gauntlet 😤 you don't learn nothin about yer group in cupcake games, but Vegas then the altitude the next night? that tells you who's got guts 🔥 nah we ain't gonna roll over, gonna be glued to the telly both nights, ah well, nowt to do but believe 💪🍁

Don't laugh but does a brutal schedule really teach a 28th place team anything, or does it just wreck their confidence before mid-October? 🤔 StandsGuy I get your point, but maybe you learn more from a winnable home game vs Nashville on the 6th than getting gasped out in Denver on zero rest. Still learning this, so maybe I'm wrong 😅

DaveFaithful mate, you learn MORE gettin gassed in Denver tbh 😤 anyone who played minor hockey knows it, them road trips with back to backs is where a dressing room actually bonds. Winnable Nashville game? nah, we're 28th pal, every game should be treated like a war 💪 through thick and thin and all that. Vegas Friday then Colorado Saturday... brutal but that's hockey, no excuses 🏒🔥 I'll be up watching both nights, kettle on, heart says it all. GO LEAFS GO 🍁

Maybe I'm wrong but bonding through gassing out in Denver feels a bit romantic lol 😅 I'd rather actually compete vs Nashville and Buffalo, cheers 😄

Played junior hockey in towns where the road trips made the team tbh 😤 you just know who's got guts after a back to back, that's where character shows 💪

Maybe I'm wrong, but character from one tired road trip feels like a stretch 😅 does a 28th place team really bond from getting beat twice in two nights? Genuine question 🙈

haha, Uncle_Guy's got a point though. i sat through the suspiciously similar gauntlet of '09 in the old schedule and swears to this day it "built character", then we finished the month looking like a tyre fire 😄 a 28th place club getting thumped in vegas and denver teaches you plenty, mind, mostly about your goalie. maybe the boys surprise us oct 9-10. i've been watching long enough to expect the opposite 😉