Wednesday, July 12, 2006
Skedyool!
Andy hit on most of the general highlights of the NHL schedule. Calgary's full sked is here, and features:
Anyway, by my count, there are 9 occurrences this year of a road team playing on back-to-back nights in Calgary and Edmonton. 6 times they start in Calgary (DET, CBJ, CAR, PHX, MIN, NSH) and 3 times they open in Edmonton (PHX, LA, ANA). We'll see if the Oil can take a bit better advantage of it this time.
- Ten back-to-backs. Five are Road/Road; four are Home/Road or Road/Home; and one is Home/Home.
- One 6-game roadtrip in December is their longest roadie by far. They have no 5-gamers, and only two 4-gamers. The majority of the schedule is alternating 2-3 game home stands/road trips.
- That BoA schedule is deja vu; home/away is spread out better than last season, but the dates are very similar.
- Interconference: it's a bit different than last season. The East-West games start right away (CGY's roadtrip to the NE Div is Games 4-7 of the season) and are spread through the whole season, whereas last season they started in December and were over before the Olympic break.
- So, the Oilers, finishing the season on a 6-game roadtrip... I've never heard of such a thing, but I guess that's the price you pay if you want to host the World Curling Championships. (If you're keeping track, that's a 5-gamer to make way for the cowboys, a 6-gamer to make way for the curlers, and a 7-gamer to make even fewer guys want to play in Edmonton, i.e. for no apparent reason.)
- The Jan.13 BoA is Part 3 of this season's Hockey Day in Canada.
Anyway, by my count, there are 9 occurrences this year of a road team playing on back-to-back nights in Calgary and Edmonton. 6 times they start in Calgary (DET, CBJ, CAR, PHX, MIN, NSH) and 3 times they open in Edmonton (PHX, LA, ANA). We'll see if the Oil can take a bit better advantage of it this time.
# posted by Matt @ 9:25 pm 
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Ouch--I'd forgotten about the curling championships. The Eskimos got prison-punked the year we hosted the track-and-field worlds--I'd anticipate something similar here.
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Ouch--I'd forgotten about the curling championships. The Eskimos got prison-punked the year we hosted the track-and-field worlds--I'd anticipate something similar here.
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