2016-17 Pittsburgh Penguins schedule released
Wow, that was a quick turnaround
Get yet 2016-17 Pittsburgh Penguins schedule here.
From the team:
This year, the two Metropolitan Division teams that the Penguins will play five times are the New Jersey Devils (3 at home; 2 on the road) and the New York Rangers (2 at home; 3 on the road). The Penguins will play the other five Metro teams four times each.
There will be more hearing "O Canada" too, the Pens take 2 trips to all of three Canadian teams from the Atlantic (OTT, TOR, MTL) with those three teams only coming to Pittsburgh once in the season.
Other interesting dates:
- Thurs Oct 13 -- season opener (and banner raising night) at home against the Caps
- Thurs Oct 20 -- San Jose comes back to Pittsburgh for a SCF rematch
- Sat Nov 5 -- Pittsburgh visits SJ
- Tues Nov 8 -- Connor McDavid first game against the Pens (if healthy)
- Jan 1- 7, 2017 the Penguins "bye week" (which every team gets at some point)
- Sat Feb 25 the Pens and Flyers meet at Heinz Field
- 7 of last 9 games are Metro Division games
- Sun Apr 9 -- regular season finale @ NYR
It's shaping up to be a pretty fast summer.