Wednesday, July 12, 2006

06/07 Flames Schedule

Can be found here.

Notable dates include:

- The opening home-and-home series against Greaseville (Oct.5/7)

- The Saddledome debut of Alexander Ovechkin (Oct.30)

- The first game of the year against the Canuckleheads (Nov.11)

- A visit from the defending Stanley Cup champs and Mike Commodore's fro (Dec.5)

- Another New Year's classic versus the Oil (Jan.31 - curiously not currently listed by nhl.com, but reported by the fan960 in Calgary)

- Three (!) consecutive games against the Tanguay's former teammates in February (Feb.15/17/20)

- Season closer against - yup, you guessed it - the Oilers (Apr.7)

Doesn't seem to be a lot of the dreaded back-to-back games this year (assuming the schedule is accurate...which it may not be), which is good. The starting, mid and end points of the season are marked by BOA matches, which is an ideal method of structuring the schedule from an "Alberta" point of view.