I was looking at the Maple Leafs schedule, and thought it was odd that the Leafs had such a big gap between games - Tuesday to Saturday - since they usually play on Wednesday’s or Thursday’s.
Then opened up the NHL schedule to see what the lesser teams were up to, and there are only two games tonight - Flames @ Predators and Canadiens @ Golden Knights. Which, again, is odd for a Thursday.
So, I looked back on previous Halloween’s and the NHL seems to be afraid to schedule games on today, the holiest days of the Hot Topic calendar.