The National Hockey League announced the full schedule for the 2016-17 season today. After providing everyone a teaser yesterday with the dates and opponents for each team’s home openers, the complete season listing was released this afternoon.
For Buffalo, the team will start off the highly anticipated 2016-17 season at their newly-named Key Bank Center against division rivals Montreal Canadiens on October 13th. The last two games of the season are on a Florida road trip, ending with the Lightning on April 9th.
At first glance, this looks like a reasonably well-balanced schedule for the Sabres, with two four-game home stands.