By David Opinko

NHL announces new dates for 98 postponed games, 95 to take place in 16 days

Jan 19, 2022 | 2:41 PM

NEW YORK – NHL players, fans, and reporters are going to be extremely busy.

The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in 98 games being postponed in the 2021-22 regular season.

Now, the league has announced that all NHL clubs will be able to complete their 82-game slates by the original regular-season closing date of Friday, April 29.

98 games that had been previously postponed between November 18, 2021, and January 18, 2022, now have new dates.

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To accommodate those, 23 other games are being shuffled around.

During what was previously the Olympic Break from February 7-22 will instead play host to a whopping 95 NHL games.

Thursday, February 17 will see 10 games played.

“We are profoundly grateful to our fans for their support and understanding during a challenging time and to our Clubs, the NHL Players’ Association and the Players for their cooperation in a rescheduling of unprecedented logistical complexity,” said NHL Deputy Commissioner Bill Daly.

The updated NHL schedule can be found here.