[BluH2o]

What's with the Stanley Cup being played in June? Use to be the NHL Stanley Cup play-offs were over by mid-April, at the latest. If the Stanley Cup games are extended out all seven games this year it won't wrap up 'til mid-June ... which is ridiculous. Another few years down the road and the interval between when hockey wraps up for one season and pre-season games begin for the next ... will be down to about six weeks.

[discostu]

The season has been expanded to the point where normal seasons won't end until the end of May, and this was an Olympic year with a two week stoppage in February.

The NBA season is going to end even later and they don't even have the Olympics as an excuse. Baseball season is just as long. When a league's not playing an league's not earning, except for the NFL which finds a way to get networks to pay to cover almost everything.