2016-17 CBJ Schedule Thread

[CBJWerenski8]

Our opening home game is against the Bruins

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[Jackets Woodchuck]

Our opening home game is against the Bruins

Sounds like it's also the CBJ season opener. Full schedule tomorrow.

 

[cbjfan4life]

probably no home NYE game again

 

[theD86]

It's true. Sched. to be released between 12:00 & 3:00

 

[CBJWerenski8]

 

[CBJWerenski8]

So I counted 14 back to backs. That seems very high. I know we had the most back to backs last season, did we repeat?

 

[joshjoshjosh]

So I counted 14 back to backs. That seems very high. I know we had the most back to backs last season, did we repeat?

15 teams had 14 or more last year. Looks like Columbus moved somewhere in the middle in that regard.

 

[EspenK]

Crikeys! We could be 0-7 ( I misread the chart-counted pre-season I thought it could be 0-11). There are no easy games in October.

 

[Fro]

i read 19 back to backs


also 2 games at Tampa...that pleases me, both on Fridays...

 

[CBJWerenski8]

It's 19. I didn't look close enough

 

[Viqsi]

Crikeys! We could be 0-7 ( I misread the chart-counted pre-season I thought it could be 0-11). There are no easy games in October.

Yeah, having the California Road Trip at the start of the season is a little worrisome.

But, hey, home game on my birthday. w00t.

 

[Viqsi]

It's 19. I didn't look close enough

I count 18. One of those is the All-Star Weekend.

 

[DJA]

Horrendous schedule but hey, we should be used to it by now.

I don't see anyway we avoid another slow start this season.

 

[Johansen2Foligno]

This is good tanking material

 

[JacketsDavid]

I believe the NHL asks teams what they want - lot of home weekend games or a more balanced schedule. Since our attendance suffers during week we usually always get more weekend games which leads to a lot of back to backs.
So it's not the league screwing us. It's us choosing weekend games to help attendance.

Pretty well however you arranged the schedule we would be in trouble, It's not like we could play Toronto and Edmonton 41 times each...

 

[EspenK]

And they finally come to Dallas on a weekend.

 

[theD86]

I think the Jackets will be better this season. Playoffs? Not this year. But, better

 

[cbjfan4life]

Feel much better about defensive potential.....could be a lot of 2-1 games.....but if the forwards dont have to spend 3/4s of their shifts trying to get it out of the defensive zone, they could be a pleasant suprise

 

[neek21]

3-5 after the first eight games would be a miracle....what a brutal opening first two weeks!!

 

[cbjgirl]

The good thing is that they have a couple of games and then a stretch where they are off. I think a significant part of the problem last season was how heavily loaded the opening stretch was and they had no time to regroup. IIRC it was practically a game every other day.

Looking it up: October 9, 10, 12, 14, 16, 17, 20, 22, 24

 

[theD86]

Feel much better about defensive potential.....could be a lot of 2-1 games.....but if the forwards dont have to spend 3/4s of their shifts trying to get it out of the defensive zone, they could be a pleasant suprise

Agreed. Werenski will strengthen that group. But, man alive the forwards better pass better then they did last season

 

[niflheim]

So I counted 14 back to backs. That seems very high. I know we had the most back to backs last season, did we repeat?

14 b2b WMF? (Sergio gets hurt again in late November, but Patrick Nolan so good sweetener
for my melancholy )

 

[DarkandStormy]

19 back-to-backs and 15 3-in-4's.

The schedule is incredibly front-loaded on '16 playoff teams in the front end, and lottery teams on the back end. Same script as the last couple years? Probably.

 

[DarkandStormy]

We led the league in back-to-back's the last two years. This isn't a surprise. The NHL bones us.

Also...what in the actual **** is that Cali road trip?? L.A., day off, San Jose, then immediately back to Anaheim??? Are the schedule makers high?? (I realize they usually **** up that road trip, but they finally got it right last year putting the back-to-back's in L.A.)

 

[WannabeFinn]

our first 15 games of the season are going to be a ****ing nightmare