Schedule alert: It will be out next week
Look for the NHL's complete 2009-10 schedule sometime next week after baseball's All-Star Game is wrapped up.
Might be Wednesday, when the NHL is holding a press conference in Fenway Park to announce the next Winter Classic (opponent still TBA, although NBC is known to be pushing the Flyers over Alex Ovechkin's Caps). Might be Thursday.
Always interesting to see how the Sabres' Western Conference foes will be broken down. In particular, will we see Brian Campbell make his return to HSBC with Patrick Kane and the rest of the Blackhawks?
It should be a dramatically different schedule as well with nearly three weeks off in February for the Olympic break. That will compress things before and after February. And the Sabres know they'll be on the road for basically a week in March when the NCAA basketball tournament comes back to HSBC.
So in TO speak, getcha popcorn pencils ready!
---Mike Harrington
