Confirmed with Link: Sabres' 2018-19 Regular Season Schedule - Home Opener Against Boston

[26CornerBlitz]

PDF Download: Sabres' 2018-19 Regular Season Schedule

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[Vito_81]

Boston is in Washington for the Caps opener the night before.

 

[Sabre the Win]

The first season game comes against a team playing off a back to back.. if we win we should temper expectations but if we lose........ The scenic boat cruise is going down in flames.

 

[26CornerBlitz]

The first season game comes against a team playing off a back to back.. if we win we should temper expectations but if we lose........ The scenic boat cruise is going down in flames.

2018-19 NHL home openers

NEW YORK -- The National Hockey League today announced the home openers for all 31 clubs for the 2018-19 regular season. The League's complete 1,271-game schedule will be revealed live on NHL Network tomorrow, Thursday, June 21, at 5 p.m. ET during NHL Tonight: 2018-19 Schedule Release, hosted by Fran Charles and analysts Ken Daneyko and Mike Johnson. The hour-long show will also be streamed live on NHL.com.

 

[sabrebuild]

The first season game comes against a team playing off a back to back.. if we win we should temper expectations but if we lose........ The scenic boat cruise is going down in flames.

What kind a schedule gives us game 1 against an opponents game 3?

 

[Sabre the Win]

Am I missing something @26CornerBlitz ? It says Washington home opener vs Boston is October 3rd and our home opener is October 4th vs Boston.

That would put Boston on the road with a back to back to open the season.

 

[Deleted member 27798]

This is a case of Bettman and his lackies thinking the NHL is on par with the NFL. Does anyone really care who the Sabres home opener is against...that it had to be announced prior to the rest of the schedule? Just release the full schedule and be done with it.

 

[joshjull]

Am I missing something @26CornerBlitz ? It says Washington home opener vs Boston is October 3rd and our home opener is October 4th vs Boston.

That would put Boston on the road with a back to back to open the season.

Throwing us a bone?

 

[Taro Tsujimoto]

Full schedule:

 

[26CornerBlitz]

PDF Download: Sabres' 2018-19 Regular Season Schedule

 

[CrazyPsycho]

Is it just me or are the b2bs way decreased

 

[Strexvale]

Is it just me or are the b2bs way decreased

I counted 16, so... that still seems like a lot. I'd assume 16 puts them in the upper half of the league.

 

[CrazyPsycho]

I counted 16, so... that still seems like a lot. I'd assume 16 puts them in the upper half of the league.

I only see 10? Ahhh the sat/sun games

 

[Taro Tsujimoto]

No Sabres/Bills conflicts from what I can see. Three Sabres/Bills doubleheaders, though:

10/21: Bills@Colts 1PM, Sabres@Ducks 8PM
11/4: Bears@Bills 1PM, Sabres@Rangers 7PM
12/16: Lions@Bills 1PM, Sabres@Bruins 5PM

 

[Sabre the Win]

Wow we hit our westcoast road trip right in October. If we can capitlize like we did last westcoast road trip we may be looking good in October

 

[missingmika]

2 games in DC in a week!!! Yes!

 

[26CornerBlitz]

 

[Zman5778]

I'm not sure if this is a good thing or a bad thing:

Apparently our bye week is lumped on top of the All Star break:

Friday January 18 at Vancouver 10 p.m.
Tuesday January 29 at Columbus 7 p.m.

 

[Kyndig]

16 Back to backs would be the same as last year which is near the top of the league. 8 of the 16 of the second of the back to backs come against a team within our division. 23 of the 32 games of back to backs are against the Eastern Conference.

For whatever all of that is worth. Seems we always get the short end of the stick when it comes to scheduling not that it matters because last years team pretty much lost every game anyways.

 

[krt88nc]

10 afternoon games this year plus a few 5:00pm road games and a couple of 6:00pm games.

Hope they can play better when the sun is up. Well play better all the time too would help.

 

[yahhockey]

A lot of games at odd times even if it is only once or twice (3, 4, 5, 6pm). Many Saturday 1pm games as well however I would guess it is a plan to bring more families to the arena. Oh well, the schedule doesn't mean much other than not wanting too many back to back games. At least some of the back to backs have two days off prior to the consecutive games.

 

[sabregoat]

16 Back to backs would be the same as last year which is near the top of the league. 8 of the 16 of the second of the back to backs come against a team within our division. 23 of the 32 games of back to backs are against the Eastern Conference.

For whatever all of that is worth. Seems we always get the short end of the stick when it comes to scheduling not that it matters because last years team pretty much lost every game anyways.

We are not getting the short end. For back to back games, you want relatively short travel and that tends to be in your conference so you get more division/conference games. The only problem I have is 6 sets of games are both on the road.

 

[Samsonite23]

Vegas in October here I come.

 

[brian_griffin]

Is it just me or are the b2bs way decreased

I counted 16, so... that still seems like a lot. I'd assume 16 puts them in the upper half of the league.

1 Oct
4 Nov
3 Dec
2 Jan
2 Feb
4 March
16 total, 32 of 82 games = 39%

 

[Djp]

I think it’s really odd to have 2 trips to the sane city within a week...saw this with Washington and Toronto.