[News] Flames release 2016/17 regular season schedule

[dammage79]

California road trip to end the season? Yeesh.

[OutOfTheCube]

Sabres game is early this year, Oct. 18th. See you all there!

[MrCallahan]

Originally Posted by gallione11

No extended home stands this year. 4 is the longest.

Brutal road trip in November. 6 games in 9 days against DET, BUF, CLB, BOS, PHI, NYI. Not the strongest of teams, but little to no practice time /rest.

March has a pretty long stretch, with the exception of the Jets game on the 11th.

[Weitz]

Boy thats quite the last 10-15 games on the schedule.

I find the schedule weird this year. Looking at the oilers they only play 2 road games in march. 8 game home stand then 2 on the road then 4 game home stand.

Don't play the Flames after january. I think that sort of sucks.

[Otto-matic]

Originally Posted by dammage79

California road trip to end the season? Yeesh.

Works perfectly with a cali roadtrip for my birthday though.

[Jiggy_12]

LOL @ that New Years game, they didn't even try.

[Samiz]

Wow those last 6 to 10 games look very scary. Hopefully the Flames are already in decent position before them otherwise the end of the season could get very stressful

[squiggs96]

I really like the Friday and Sunday games at home on the same weekend. It allows me to get to more games. Thursday and Saturday are doable, but this makes it easier for me.

[agulati]

Does anyone know if there is a way to upload the schedule to google calendar?

[CMPunk]

Originally Posted by agulati

Does anyone know if there is a way to upload the schedule to google calendar?

http://flames.nhl.com/club/page.htm?id=70004

[Hot_Flatus]

Pretty awful end to the season with 5 straight games against the California teams. Not sure why that was decided?

[bc-chris]

Originally Posted by hockey.modern

Mark your calendars, November 6th @ the Honda Center.

flames start the season 13-0 and then they play in anaheim

[homestand]

Originally Posted by agulati

Does anyone know if there is a way to upload the schedule to google calendar?

• Go to the Google calendar
• Click Other Calendars on the left
• Click Browsing Interesting Calendars
• Select the Sports Tab
• Click Hockey
• Click NHL
• Select which teams to subscribe

[Enoch Root]

Originally Posted by Hot_Flatus

Pretty awful end to the season with 5 straight games against the California teams. Not sure why that was decided?

You have to play them sometime.

Also, that can be the best time to play top teams - if they have a playoff birth, and their fate decided, they could rest players and not be at full intensity.

Really, there is no way of knowing in advance, whether it will be a good or bad time to play them. Sometimes you run into a team when they'll injury-riddled and snake bit. Other times you run into crap teams that are on a crazy roll.

It all averages out.

[Parallex]

November looks gross. A lot of tired road hockey that month... I count 4 back to backs to go along with the longest run of road games (and a smaller but still long road trip at the start).

[Cali Panthers Fan]

Only 3 road trips longer than 3 games. That's actually a pretty decent schedule. As others have mentioned, there is a tough 6 game trip through the northeast, but the travel isn't as bad as people think.

Nov. 20 Detroit to Nov. 21 Buffalo. Overnight, but it's only an hour flight.
Buffalo to Nov. 23 Columbus. Day off in between with a 1:30 flight time.
Columbus to Nov. 25 Boston. Day off in between with a 2 hour flight time.
Boston to Nov. 27 Philadelphia. Day off in between with a 1:20 flight time
Philadelphia to Nov. 28 NYI. Overnight, but the flight isn't even an hour long.

Yes, there's lots of travel, but it's all really short stops. It's probably going to be harder to fly home to Calgary after the game in New York with only one day between that and the next game against Toronto, making it 3 games in 4 nights with a lot of travel. Should be 2 days off IMO.

Small note, but they used the old Panthers logo in the schedule. Irks me because the new one is much more elegant.

Feb. 24th @ BB&T Center in South Florida. If anyone is going to be at the game PM me to organize a meet up at the game.

[albertGQ]

When is our bye week?

[united]

So the Flames' bye week (five days) is February 8th to 12th. Players off to Mexico? Vegas?

[Toonage]

Was there any mention of the on sale date for single game tickets?

[Krynn]

Originally Posted by Jiggy_12

LOL @ that New Years game, they didn't even try.

No they didn't, they need to go back to the Habs on new years