Breaking Down the Flyers 2009/10 Schedule

by Travis Hughes on Jul 15, 2009 5:25 PM EDT in News

There's always a lot to take in when a team announces their schedule for the upcoming season. 82 games unveiled all at once can be overwhelming, so we'll try to make the task a little easier for you.

The Flyers open the season on Friday, October 2 in Carolina. They then travel to the Prudential Center in Newark to take on the Devils the following night before opening their home schedule against Mike Knuble, Alex Ovechkin, and the Washington Capitals on Tuesday, October 6.

The season is highlighted by the Winter Classic at Boston's Fenway Park on New Years Day 2010 between the Flyers and Bruins. Due to the Winter Olympics in Vancouver, there will be no all-star festivities this year and the Flyers will only play seven games in February -- no games from the 14th until March 2.

There is at least one game against each of the Western Conference teams, but the Dallas Stars, Minnesota Wild, and San Jose Sharks are played twice each -- once at home and once on the road -- for a total of 18 games against the West. There are six games against each team in the division, and four games against the rest of the Eastern Conference clubs.

The Flyers take their annual Holiday Season road trip again this year, but this time they'll stay on the East Coast, traveling to Tampa, Miami, Carolina, New York (versus both teams), Boston (for the Winter Classic) and Ottawa. It is the longest road trip of the season, six games in length. The Flyers will also take two Western swings, a four-gamer in November against Los Angeles, San Jose, Phoenix, and Colorado, and a three-gamer at the start of February against Calgary, Edmonton, and Minnesota.

There are several homestands, but the longest is six games long at the end of January. The season closes with a home-and-home against the Rangers. The front end is at Madison Square Garden on April 9, with the final game of the season at home against the NYR on April 11.

Again, tons of details after the jump...

Rivalry Schedules

Pittsburgh

October 8 - at Flyers
December 15 - at Pittsburgh (home and home)
December 17 - at Flyers (home and home)
January 7 - at Pittsburgh
January 24 - at Flyers
March 27 - at Pittsburgh

NY Rangers

December 19 - at Flyers
December 30 - at Rangers
January 21 - at Flyers
March 14 - at Rangers
April 9 - at Rangers (home and home)
April 11 - at Flyers (home and home, final game of season)

New Jersey

October 3 - at New Jersey
November 16 - at Flyers
December 12 - at New Jersey
February 8 - at Flyers (home and home)
February 10 - at New Jersey (home and home)
March 28 - at Flyers

Washington

October 6 - at Flyers (home opener)
October 27- at Washington
December 5 - at Flyers
January 17 - at Washington

Visiting from the West (9 games)

October 10 - Anaheim (Chris Pronger reunites, Lupul & Sbisa return)
October 25 - San Jose
November 7 - St. Louis
December 3 - Vancouver
January 12 - Dallas
January 19 - Columbus
March 13 - Chicago
March 25 - Minnesota
April 4 - Detroit

Travelling West (9 games)

Tuesday, March 16 - at Nashville, 8 PM ET
Thursday, March 18 - at Dallas, 8 PM ET

Four-game West Coast Trip (November 18 - 23)

Wednesday, November 18 - at LA Kings, 10:30 PM ET
Friday, November 20 - at San Jose Sharks, 10:30 PM ET
Saturday, November 21 - at Phoenix Coyotes, 8 PM ET
Monday, November 23 - at Colorado Avalanche, 9 PM ET

Three-game Northwest Division Swing (February 1 - 6)

Monday, February 1 - at Calgary Flames, 9:30 PM ET
Wednesday, February 3 - at Edmonton Oilers, 9:30 PM ET
Saturday, February 6 - at Minnesota Wild, 8 PM ET

Annual Holiday Road Trip - Six games (December 23 - January 3)

Wednesday, December 23 - at Tampa Bay Lightning
Saturday, December 26 - at Carolina Hurricanes
Sunday, December 27 - at New York Islanders
Wednesday, December 30 - at New York Rangers
Friday, January 1 - Winter Classic at Fenway Park vs Bruins
Sunday, January 3 - at Ottawa Senators

Longest Homestand - Six games (January 19 - January 30)

January 19 - vs Blue Jackets
January 21 - vs NY Rangers
January 23 - vs Hurricanes
January 24 - vs Penguins
January 28 - vs Thrashers
January 30 - vs Islanders

Tweet Comment 14 comments | 0 recs |

Do you like this story?

Comments

I like this schedule so far. It seems pretty balanced, and the ‘Disney On Ice road trip’ or whatever isn’t as bad this year. The first home game against Pittsburgh should be a good gut check … ‘intense’ will hopefully be putting it lightly.

I feel awful for the Rangers, who have to witness the raising of the banner in Pittsburgh.

by Ben Feldman on Jul 15, 2009 6:03 PM EDT reply actions

No sympathy for the Rangers. Ever,

Broad Street Hockey - SB Nation's Philadelphia Flyers Blog. Makin' it look mean since 1967.

by Travis Hughes on Jul 15, 2009 6:23 PM EDT up reply actions

Agreed

No sympathy . . . but I def. would be f**king mad if they had raised the banner against us.
Glad its not us and looking forward to bringing the Penguins back to reality 6 times this season.

by Mitchell Green on Jul 15, 2009 6:40 PM EDT up reply actions

Ditto

Ranger fans still can’t wrap their head around that fact that they were the worst team in professional sports for 8 years.

by boknows71 on Jul 16, 2009 11:51 AM EDT up reply actions

Back To Back Again

Flyers meet Rangers in a home and home again to close out the year…. why?

I know the Flyers played the Islanders in the middle of the games last year, but still. Weird ain’t it?

"Jaromir Jagr.... it's a POWERPLAY GOAL!"

by rmc235 on Jul 15, 2009 11:14 PM EDT reply actions

there’s always a lot of division games at the end of the season so it’s always possible

Bleeding Green Nation - Philadelphia Eagles Blog

by JasonB on Jul 16, 2009 12:29 AM EDT via mobile up reply actions

NBC loves it. Versus loves it.

BROAD STREET HOCKEY.
The Flyer Frequent.

by Ben Rothenberg on Jul 16, 2009 3:09 AM EDT up reply actions

Rough first month

Schedule doesn’t look bad, nasty first month though. I haven’t looked at other team’s schedules, but I hope we get those games in hand like we had last year. That was a nice cushion.

First time post, long time reader.

by NoalB on Jul 17, 2009 10:16 AM EDT reply actions

Welcome.

The one thing I love about the schedule this year is, yeah there’s the 2 week layoff for the Olympics, but means we don’t have those stretches of 4 and 5 days off like we had seemingly multiple times last year. Those were terrible.

Because of that, though, it doesn’t seem to me like any team will get a huge games in hand advantage because no team is going too long without playing a game.

Broad Street Hockey - SB Nation's Philadelphia Flyers Blog. Makin' it look mean since 1967.

by Travis Hughes on Jul 17, 2009 10:36 AM EDT up reply actions

Also, the Flyers are only in ONE Hockey Night in Canada timeslot, and that’s not until February 13 @ Montreal. Not cool.

BROAD STREET HOCKEY.
The Flyer Frequent.

by Ben Rothenberg on Jul 21, 2009 5:26 AM EDT reply actions

Bettman’s revenge for NBC putting us into the Winter Classic?

by Ben Feldman on Jul 21, 2009 7:28 PM EDT up reply actions

the opener against the Pens is gonna be a bruiser. wonder who the starting goalie is going to be?

The General of all that is Sports

by stonewall jackson on Jul 22, 2009 10:15 AM EDT reply actions

the Phantoms..

Do the Flyers have to play another preseason game against the Phantoms? I know the preseasons don’t effect the standings…..but last year the Flyers were whipped like dogs by their minor league counterparts……how an NHL team loses to an AHL team just is mind boggling…I don’t care what the circumstances are, that was a humiliating loss. bottom line is pride! an AHL team should not even hang around with an NHL team, much less beat them.
I hope if they play the Phantoms this year, they go in with the mind set…that they are representing the NHL (the best hockey league in the world) losses to minor league teams is unacceptable….that loss to the Phantoms I think kicked off that 6 game losing streak, that the team opened the season with..

by FlyersGoalies1and27 on Aug 11, 2009 5:55 PM EDT reply actions