The NHL has released the schedule for next year and once again, the Avalanche are opening at home. In an interesting move though, they'll be opening it against an Eastern Conference opponent, the Boston Bruins.
My first thought was "Hey, that's something new and possibly interesting" but then I glanced down the list of games in October and thought "They're blowing all the Eastern conference games in October!" But fear not, because then I remembered that this year there will be games aplenty against the Eastern conference. Canadiens, Flyers, Lightning, Bruins, Sabres, Leafs, Islanders, Capitals...my goodness, did you know were this many teams out East?
The Avalanche will also close out the season against a non-divisional opponent in the Blues while playing 4 of their last 6 games outside the division. I guess this year we'll see just how interesting the playoff races are without an inundation of divisional opponents. And who knows, with less games against the Flames, maybe I'll start un-hating them.
Previously, the Avs had opened the season against the Dallas Stars, which meant I could watch the game with my Stars fan of an uncle and, if the Avalanche lost, pull out this gem: "Yeah, well who won the last two playoff series between the Stars and Avs?" Because you know, that doesn't sound childish at all.
And my Leafs fan of an uncle...well he's already a Leafs fan so I don't pick on him too much.
Thursday, July 17, 2008
Colorado Avalanche 2008/09 Schedule Released
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Not a bad Schedule except that the Avs don't make their first trip to SJ until LATE FRICKING MARCH!
Jebus they could be out of the playoffs by that time.
If it's anything like the last couple years, they'll be giving us all heart attacks by that point as they sit one point out/in of the playoffs.
Or Budaj will turn into the second coming of Patty Roy. What? I'm not supposed to expect that anymore? ;)
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