Canucks Schedule Released

[Canucks LB]

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[supercanuck]

Seems to be quite a few 1 game road trips.

 

[MS]

2 things stand out :

1) That is a nasty travel schedule through October-November.

2) The NHL continues to insist on having the playoffs run until mid-late June when nobody cares about hockey and then starting the next regular season in mid-October when their fans are frothing for the season to start on October 1. f***ing idiotic.

 

[WhiteCurse]

Seattle and Boston looks like the games I will go to, haven't seen either live yet so perfect.

 

[SeawaterOnIce]

2 things stand out :

1) That is a nasty travel schedule through October-November.

2) The NHL continues to insist on having the playoffs run until mid-late June when nobody cares about hockey and then starting the next regular season in mid-October when their fans are frothing for the season to start on October 1. f***ing idiotic.

3) Stupid Leafs still get their 4pm start in Vancouver.

 

[Tim Calhoun]

January’s schedule looks rough: TB (2x), COL (2x), PIT, CAR, FLA, EDM. And a 10 game in 17 day stretch.

 

[Angry Little Elf]

Ten back to back games.

 

[SeawaterOnIce]

Also late Feb...they play in Nashville, then St Louis and then come back home to play Boston in Vancouver and then have to go back out to Dallas?

How f***ing idiotic is that?

 

[StickShift]

12 out of the first 17 games are against eastern conference opponents. That is going to give the Canucks a weird relationship in the standings against all of the other Western Conference opponents the rest of the season.

 

[Josepho]

3) Stupid Leafs still get their 4pm start in Vancouver.

I still have absolutely no idea why the NHL picks us to get the Saturday game against Toronto over Edmonton.

 

[vancityluongo]

The NHL should start pre-season at the end of August and have the season start second week of September, well before the NBA starts, before October baseball, and in line with the NFL season - when people are back to watching (and gambling on) sports. That way the Cup Finals are done by mid-May (with all eyes on that vs no football, early baseball and the first round of the NBA playoffs) and you can have the draft at the start of June and free agency essentially done by Canada Day.

As for the schedule, I'll hopefully be able to grab tickets for the Dec. 23rd game in Edmonton, although it's annoying that the two times the Canucks roll through here are the season opener and a high demand Christmas game

 

[StreetHawk]

Still not trying to limit travel by traveling only once to each city and playing the 2 games there.

4 central teams Canucks have to travel to twice.
6 pacific clubs that they have to travel to twice.

 

[Josepho]

Also just realized that Calgary/Edmonton only have 3 games against eachother this year.

I'm way more in favour of the NFL structure of divisions where we'd see the rival teams at a way higher rate. Vancouver/Calgary/Edmonton/Seattle would be really fun.

 

[Nucker101]

Re-hire Gilman just to argue with the NHL schedule maker like they did back in the day

Rutherford likes having 27 assistant GM's anyway

 

[timw33]

Saturday Night Home games:

Buffalo
Nashville
Arizona
Minnesota
Winnepeg
Edmonton
Philladelphia
Toronto
Ottawa
Calgary

Pretty crummy saturday night slate.

 

[M2Beezy]

So JT Miller returns February 15th, how romantic...

 

[StreetHawk]

Also just realized that Calgary/Edmonton only have 3 games against eachother this year.

I'm way more in favour of the NFL structure of divisions where we'd see the rival teams at a way higher rate. Vancouver/Calgary/Edmonton/Seattle would be really fun.

Has to be a rotation with the division.

32 vs East
24 vs central so 3 games each
16 games left vs 7 teams. 5 you play 4 times 2 you play 3 times.

Only if they make is home and home with all non division games would you feel up 8 more games within division.

Would then have 34 games vs 7 teams. 6 you play 5 times for 30 games 1 team 4 times.

If you are at most playing in another city twice might as well make it just 1 trip. Knock off the games so you don’t need a second trip there. Easier b2b and would increase the quality of the game rather than flying to another city and getting into the hotel close to 3am vs being back at the same hotel by 11pm.

 

[rypper]

Not canucks but the Arizona schedule is hilarious.

 

[Josepho]

Has to be a rotation with the division.

32 vs East
24 vs central so 3 games each
16 games left vs 7 teams. 5 you play 4 times 2 you play 3 times.

Only if they make is home and home with all non division games would you feel up 8 more games within division.

Would then have 34 games vs 7 teams. 6 you play 5 times for 30 games 1 team 4 times.

If you are at most playing in another city twice might as well make it just 1 trip. Knock off the games so you don’t need a second trip there. Easier b2b and would increase the quality of the game rather than flying to another city and getting into the hotel close to 3am vs being back at the same hotel by 11pm.

I disagree with this premise and I think we could easily do some larger scale of the NFL schedule form. I would rather have a bunch of heated games against Edmonton/Calgary than get to see the Detroit Red Wings come to town once per year.

 

[bobbyb2009]

Not canucks but the Arizona schedule is hilarious. View attachment 565147

An absolute FARCE

 

[theguardianII]

Ten back to back games.

You have to see how many scheduled wins are in Vancouver's favour, last year it was quite a lot of tired teams playing the Nux, more than they had to deal with. Vancouver had one of the easier schedules last year

 

[AppleHoneySauce]

You have to see how many scheduled wins are in Vancouver's favour, last year it was quite a lot of tired teams playing the Nux, more than they had to deal with. Vancouver had one of the easier schedules last year

Tired teams and an incredibly biased whistle. And because of that moron we couldnt even capatilize.

I guess hopefully JR can pull some strings and get us another season like that.

 

[Joe Rogan]

At least there's no stupid 9am games in Buffalo on a Sunday morning

 

[Canucks LB]

Looking at the schedule, I can see Arizona have Bedard and Matthews within the next three years, no joke.

 

[StreetHawk]

I disagree with this premise and I think we could easily do some larger scale of the NFL schedule form. I would rather have a bunch of heated games against Edmonton/Calgary than get to see the Detroit Red Wings come to town once per year.

It’s the matrix as it sits now. At a minimum you will have 48/82 vs the other non division teams. 34 left to split with 7 clubs. It’s Detroit now, but means possibly no Bedard in the future should he land in the East.

That’s why there was a fuss when Sid and Ovy didn’t come every season.