The March 8th trade deadline is now just a month away. Teams will be scrambling to make moves at the deadline approaches but now some teams will have to contend with an unexpected change in plans. <h2>NHL Announces Major Schedule Changes</h2> The League announced changes to the schedule for 11 games in March and April. Four of those games are before the March 8th trade deadline. <q>SCHEDULE UPDATE: The @NHL has announced updates to the 2023-24 regular-season schedule, which includes start time changes and U.S. broadcast information updates for 11 games in March and April.</q> <div align='center'><blockquote class='twitter-tweet' data-lang='en'><a href='https://twitter.com/PR_NHL/status/1755675429359292530'> </a></blockquote></div> However, all of that being said, it appears as though these changes are only to the start times of these games. So far, we have not seen any games moved to another day altogether. As a result, these changes will likely not have too much of an effect on the teams involved. However, it will still be an exciting part of the season to watch as we head towards the trade deadline.