I have no issues with the shutdown. I have issues with the league's inability to use the time to fix the schedule and in fact making it worse by unbalancing the schedules within the conferences.
Before the shutdown both East series had 2 back to backs, which is already ridiculous while the West only had 1 for both series. Now after the shutdown one East series would have 2 and one West series would have 2.
If the Vancouver/Vegas series goes 7 that team would be playing its third game in 4 nights for Game 1 of the Conference Final while Tampa/Boston would have 3 days off after a game 7 before their game 1, Philly/New York would have 1 day off but only be playing 3 in 5 and ditto 3 in 5 for Colorado/Dallas.
....The obvious answer is the Canucks need to just handle business 3 games in a row though