Letter from Dave Andrews - No more four games in five nights

You can read the letter here, but good news for AHL fans.
No more four games in five nights, as next year's AHL schedule will be reduced by four games to 76 regular season games.

This is a tremendous development, a positive thing for EVERYONE (players, fans, coaches and bloggers).

The AHL regular season schedule will last a week longer, and the first round of the playoffs will be reduced to a best of five.

The only potential negative with the latter is the formatting of that five game series. To save money like the ECHL does, we might see a 2-3 format, which benefits the lower seeded team. That will all be hashed out later, though.

Here here to the AHL for getting this right!
We'll try to get some comments on this from Mike Yeo after Game 1 tonight.