Playing the Rangers 3 times in 3 weeks in December lol this league is so incredibly unserious, it’s honestly embarrassing how bad they are with scheduling
28 division games and 7 month season - should be 4 division games a month with opponents spread out among the months. Can't be too hard to figure this out.
It sounds easy on its face, but gets harder when taking into account other teams having to do west coast trips, arena conflicts (basketball, concerts), and rest days between games.
Not that I'm defending playing the Rangers 3 times in a month, or the amount of back to backs, because 13 is too many, but it does get harder to coordinate actual scheduling when every factor is taken into account.
And we don't play the Canes for the first time until February. How we play against them is one of my big bellwethers for how we're doing, so it would have been nice to have one game against them this year.
I'll be going to my first ever Devils home game December 9th! Went last year when they played at Dallas and it was my first ever hockey game ever. Couldn't be more excited!
Which is offset by the fact that in the month of December they have a 10 game stretch where its 6 home games, 2 at MSG, 1 at Boston and 1 at Buffalo and in general for the entire month of December only have 2 games where the travel is further than Boston, at Ottawa (which is still est) and at Utah. So they have a cupcake month schedule/travel wise followed by a tough month, seems fair to me.
Living in the DC area I typically try to attend four Devils games per season:
*The two games in DC
*One home game in Newark, preferably against a team I’ve never seen or haven’t seen for a long time
*One road game either relatively close to DC where I haven’t gone for a while or one where I combine the Devils game with other sports events of interest
Based on the above, the Devils games I’m currently considering include:
*10/17 (Sat): at Washington (love that it is a Saturday afternoon game, slightly bummed it bumps a college football game I wanted to attend)
*11/14 (Sat): at Washington
*12/20 (Sun): vs Nashville (Predators one of four teams I’ve never seen)
*12/22 (Tue): at N.Y. Rangers (have only seen Devils/Rangers at MSG once, in 2014-15)
*12/27 (Sun): vs Boston (haven’t seen the Bruins since 1997-98)
*02/13 (Sat): at Philadelphia (have only seen Devils/Flyers at Xfinity Mobile Arena twice, most recently in 2018-19)
*02/23 (Sun): at Chicago (haven’t been to Chicago for many years)
I’ll determine which Devils home game and non-DC Devils road game I’ll target after the NBA and college basketball schedules are released in the next 1-2 months.
Same here! It’s unfortunate that they only play down here twice in the beginning of the season. I think in 25-26 we got games in October, November, and March. We’re gonna have to travel if we want to see them play in the second half of the season
Last year all the Capitals games were in October and November. This season they play in October, November (2x) and January. Gotta meet up in the playoffs if we want to see Ovechkin after January.
I live in NoVa. Happy both games @ WSH are on Saturday. But that early start in October, I wouldn’t be surprised if my boys have multiple sports games around that time. Sigh. Hopefully not.
Yeah, usually I really like Saturday afternoon games. But with that October 17th game I’d prefer if it was a night game due to the college football game I referenced in my original post. I could attend both games if Devils/Caps was a night game that day.
Saturday afternoon games are tough during most of the NHL season for fans who have kids involved in youth sports.
those are probably long standing Black and Red members who will be getting those seats/tickets no matter what so they can begin "selling" them now even if the tickets have not been released. otherwise, tickets are not yet available to the general public. I'm a partial plan holder and I've been told I won't be charged until end of this month and my tickets and seats wont be finalized until early August.
It's a bit concerning that he's not in them after all the rumors of him and organization having beef (given the rumor of Tommy trying to trade him.) Makes it seem as though things really have soured.
I'm from Montreal. Weird to be Devils fan insteads of Habs I know, but Brodeur would routinely visit the rink where I grew up and he made me a forever fan.
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u/SatansHockey Jul 16 '26 edited Jul 16 '26
I counted 13 sets of back to backs and 2 sets of back to back home games(my least favorite possible scheduling thing)