No no no no, this is a HORRIBLE idea. Toronto has sold out either Maple Leaf Gardens or the ACC like what, every game for 75 years? Why go from 41 games to TWENTY-NINE? That's fucking stupid. That's a loss of, I'd approximate to be around 228,000 tickets that just disappear. That's a lot of lost revenue. Jacking up the prices for your remaining 29 home games to compensate is just plain stupid. You have a terrible idea.
In the halcyon days of the 1993-94 season, they played 84 games, and cities where hockey mattered had no problem filling the arena forty-two times, and the players had no evident qualms about playing 84 games. This is evident in that the game was much better played in the 84-game season, whereas the NHL that people want to cut back to a 70-game season is full of slacking.
58 games is ridiculous.