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This is the final year of the ridiculous money grab known as the extended NHL pre-season and the end of the era can’t come fast enough.

Starting next fall, training camps will be reduced to 13 days from 21 days and the number of exhibition games will be slashed from eight in some cases (like Edmonton) down to four.

Instead of rolling out a bunch of players who are never going to make the team for the first four or five games and then getting serious in the last three, coaches will have to get right to it.

No messing around. Get the veterans out there and start preparing everyone for opening night.

Edmonton Oilers coach Kris

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