Caps Announce Regular Season Schedule

Start the season off and end against Boston. We are going to dominate all season! AGAIN!!

-Go Caps

Hot damn I can't wait!!!!!

Oh yeah. And OV will be the first since Gretzky to win back to back to back MVP'S!!

Please tell me there aren't any stupid Versus blackouts, especially those Oct games on Tuesday vs Flyers.

pens at caps on super bowl sunday. wouldn't it be great if the skins were playing the steelers in the super bowl....we can dream i suppose.

Looks like Detroit, San Jose, and Columbus are our 3 home and home western opponents this year. Anyone say WOW!!!!

Stinks that the Bears' home opener is the 3rd also, would have been nice if there was a way that both teams could've played on separate nights for their home openers, oh well, BRING ON THE LEAFS on banner raising night part 2 (the practice for lots of banners going up on the 2010-11 opener)

Thanks Tarik for the Hunter interview, I really enjoyed reading that.
4me the Capitals gr8's start with Dennis & Guy, Rod, Dale & Olie..
I'm ready for the fall! :)

@tominfl1: The Flyers will never be subject to a Versus blackout because both the channel and the team are owned by Comcast.

Also have Dallas and "Phoenix" visiting.

And Anaheim and Minnesota.

I'm giddy.

no new years day game? that was an awesome tradition (except last year when at the winter classic) and it sucks they stopped it.

can't wait for Dec 5th in philly

This seems like a favorable schedule for the Caps overall. Only 7 home games from mid-November through New Year's is brutal, but no horrible west coast road trip and 7 of the last 10 at home.

Ok time to start the count down until October 1st. God I can't wait!!!!

Oh and at least we end the season at home again this year.

Seems they did away with the end-of-year only dvisional games thing they had going the last few years

I see the makings of a pretty good New Years in California doing a road trip. Start up in San Jose on 12/29. Spend New years in San Fran or LA. Catch Caps/kings on 1/2, and then Skins/Chargers on 1/3. Not a bad DC sports trip

@ ajian1

Agreed - I plan on going to the SJ game actually.

When is windjammer going to chime in and give us a breakdown of who we have left to play and how easy the schedule is???

Maybe WaPo gave him a reprieve this season and he'll be able to post his ridiculous synopsis' again.

:P

ajian1 I am totally stealing that idea as if it were my own but I love it and I am going to do it.

For those of us with less money than was necessary to procure season tickets, anybody know when individual came tickets or something like 5- or 10-game packages go on sale?

Hey guys - hate to sound like a rook' ... but when do single-game tickets start going on sale? I'll be in Boston that weekend ...

Thanks in advance!

Where'd the other post go, about ShaMo, Bourque and Pinni signing their offer sheets?

According to Tarik on Twitter: Mo and Bourque signed and returned their QO's. Pinizzotto signed a two-year, two-way deal.

Did anybody else see the hyperlink that was stating the Caps had resigned Morrisonn (as well as two others) only to have it disappear when you clicked on it?

Here are some key notes

Home Games
Monday - 4
Tuesday - 4
Wed - 6
Thursday - 6
Friday - 9
Saturday - 5
Sunday - 6

Thoughts: Lots of Friday games...wish those 14 Fri-Sat games were split more evenly, but I'll survive.

Nov 14th through Dec 19th - 4 home 13 road - BRUTAL

Last 2 weeks of January - 7 home 2 away

After Olympic Break - 12 home 8 away

+- on home vs away
Oct +1 home
Nov -2
Dec -4
Jan +3
Feb -3
March +2
April +2

7 of last 10 at home

So I would like to hear what you guys think....

5 biggest Home Games on the schedule..??

OPENING NIGHT
CAPS vs FLYERS SUNDAY 1/17
CAPS vs PENS SUNDAY 2/7
CAPS VS RANGERS SAT 3/6
CAPS VS BRUINS SUN 4/10

What do you guys think?

Yeah, that's what the Insider post said, too, but it has vaporized. Just assume I responded to it with great insight.

Is it just me, or are there way less afternoon games than last year? I count only four 3pm games, one 4pm, and one 12:30pm. Seemed like we played a lot of 1:00 games last season...

Yes, I noticed that, too. When I refreshed, I got an error message that the page couldn't be found.

So...

Just in case it's totally lost, here's the countdown clock to the open of the season.

http://www.timeanddate.com/counters/customcounter.html?month=10&day=1&year=2009&hour=19&min=00&sec=00&p0=263

SmallZ827 is wise indeed.

December is a -3...sorry

Just got done putting them into my calender!!!! Is it September yet????? Ahrgh!!!

I hate that our two home games vs Boston are at the end...garbage...

RE; the Dec/Jan California roadtrip to see Skins/Caps...if a number of folks do it we should coordinate meeting up and culminate with a nice tailgate in San Diego

@thiazzi

Unfortunately the other thread is back now to reveal that it was, in fact, not nearly as brilliant as I had hoped. Alas.

@ ajian1

agreed. I can at least go to the SJ game.

Caps only have five Far West games all year -
Tue., Dec 15 at Colorado 9:30 p.m.
Fri., Dec. 18 at Vancouver 10 p.m.
Sat., Dec. 19 at Edmonton 10 p.m.
Wed., Dec. 30 at San Jose 10:30 p.m.
Sat., Jan. 2 at Los Angeles 4:00 p.m.

And they are enclosed within an 8-game stretch, the other three being back home around Christmas. I think that's a good break.

Langway4Eva don't forget that they can flex any of the Sunday games to the NBC game of the week. Off hand I can see the Pens game on 2/7 flexed to 12:30or the Bruins game on 4/11 to end the season.

dcsportsfan1 said: pens at caps on super bowl sunday. wouldn't it be great if the skins were playing the steelers in the super bowl....we can dream i suppose.

I'd be rooting for opposite teams in that case - Steelers over Skins and Caps over Pens. My sports loyalties are all messed up. Product of moving as a kid (and as an adult), I suppose. In any case, LET'S GO CAPS!!!

Also have Dallas and "Phoenix" visiting.

Posted by: saintex | July 15, 2009 3:21 PM | Report abuse

The Coyotes will def be in Phoenix for 2009-10 even if Balsillie manages to phenagle his way into purchasing the team. There's little to no chance they could get the arena in Hamilton ready in time for the upcoming season. There's also the problem of the AHL Hamilton Bulldogs playing in that arena. All that being said, Jan 23rd could likely be the last time the 'Yotes will visit DC in their current incarnation.

On another note, in case you missed it (and I don't know why it's not on the Caps website), but here's the Caps pre-season sched, courtesy of Japers' Rink:

Date Opponent Location Time

TBA @ Buffalo HSBC Arena TBA

Sat. 9/19 @ Chicago United Center 8:30pm

Mon. 9/21 Buffalo Verizon 7:00pm

Wed. 9/23 Chicago Verizon 7:00pm

Th. 9/24 @ N.Y. Rangers MSG 7:00 pm

Sun. 9/27 N.Y. Rangers Verizon 12:00 pm

I'm going to be visiting DC the one weekend in October where both Thurs and Saturday games are away. And the Dallas game is in DC this year.
:(

That's fine as long as the Caps make it to the Cup round so I can have a reason to fly up and see a game.

RE; the Dec/Jan California roadtrip to see Skins/Caps...if a number of folks do it we should coordinate meeting up and culminate with a nice tailgate in San Diego

Posted by: ajian1 | July 15, 2009 3:59 PM

The Caps sold package trips for the California games last season, so maybe they'll do the same this year. It'd be cool if they could work with the Redskins to include the game in San Diego. Maybe someone with connections should suggest this?

Just watched the first period of today's scrimmage, man was it good to watch some real-ish hockey

For those of you who use Google calendar, I made a calendar of all the home games (away games to follow). You can find it by searching for:

Washington Capitals 2009-2010 Home Game Schedule

in the Google calendar search.

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Ogie Oglethorpe in a Caps jersey.
Posted by: fanohock1 | July 15, 2009 1:36 PM

@fanohock1:

OK, fine, 3,000 + PIM’s, etc., etc.

However, regarding pride vs. shame, we’ll have to agree to disagree. The real point is that although Huntzie may indeed have been a goon by some standards, he was nevertheless OUR goon!

I will always remember a faceoff he took against Yzerman in the SC Final in '98: The immediate stinky glove that followed spoke volumes about his courage in refusing to be intimidated by the Red Wings mystique.

Wow, I was trashed for my opinion on Dale Hunter, oh well. A few got mad at me because they got so livid they didn't even finish reading. For example dkidwell61 accused me of not having my facts straight
regarding the Turgeon hit and subsequent Hunter suspension. I never said that Turgeon missed 1/4 of the following season due to Hunter's hit, I said, and if one was a knowledgable hockey fan I wouldn't have had to say, that Hunter missed 1/4 of the following season because he was suspended. Turgeon was injured, but returned that same playoff season.

I was a Caps fan before Hunter got here, and I friggin' loved him when he scored the game 7 overtime winner against the Flyers. He just took too many penalties at bad times from that point on. Someone compared him to Avery which is probably a good comparison. Now Avery has a lot more points to log to be as good of a pest as Hunter, but he did the same annoying things. I have seen a lot of Caps fans say they wouldn't even like Avery if he was here, would those same people be disgusted with Hunter's style of play? We'll never know.

Also, someone tried to say that by my definition of goon that players like Messier would be a goon. Messier played over 300 more NHL games than Hunter, and had just short of half of Hunter's 3500+ minutes. I know this horse is dead, but Hunter is 2nd all time for time for sitting in the sin bin. Often taking those penalties at bad times.

Anyhow, the season sked is out and I'm ready for the season to start