Usually. Somtimes more or less, depending upon which day of the week you played. A Monday Night team that plays its next game on Saturday, for example, would only have 4 days between games, and only one of them would really be a day of rest. But then other times a team will play on Sunday and possibly not play the next Sunday becuase of a bye.

^in addition to that... a team gets one bye a year...

You guys don't understand. Sometimes NHL teas have to play 10 games in 15 nights. 3 20 minute periods are tiring enough, and if you make a 20 OT period and then a shoot out, the players are going to be dead. It's not feasible in the regular season. Peple have been asked if they want shoot out after 5 min OT, but the response has been mixed.