AHL Commissioner Dave Andrews confirmed to Syracuse.com's venerable reporter Lindsay Kramer what had long been rumoured: the California-based AHL teams will not play the same number of games as the rest of the league, much less their own division. Texas and San Antonio, also part of the same division, will play 76 games while their division mates will play some fewer number of games. While that number is as-of-yet undetermined, the common guess is that it could be as low as 68 games.
This should be setting the Texas and San Antonio fan bases on fire. The competition level issues here are innumerable.