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Monthly Matchup Planning, 2023 Edition

For fans hunting fun early-season matchups, a late October three-game home week features Buffalo (time to compare recent high first-round draft choices, including former NCAA Michigan teammates, Kraken center Matty Beniers and Sabres defenseman Owen Power), Vancouver (rivalry revived) and Pittsburgh (superstar Sidney Crosby still excelling).
More later 2022 home matchups: November brings the longest homestand of the season with Nashville, Minnesota, Winnipeg, Original Six franchise and Eastern Conference finalist New York Rangers and then division rivals LA Kings (second of a four-game season series) and San Jose Sharks. The six-game home stay runs from Nov. 8 (Nashville) through Nov. 23 Thanksgiving Eve showdown with the Sharks.
December starts off with super scorer Alex Ovechkin (his pursuit of Wayne Gretzky's NHL career goals record is legit) and the Washington Captials Dec. 1 followed by Presidents' Trophy (last regular season's best record) winner Florida and another Original Six franchise, Montreal, to round out the week.
The final month of 2022 ends with the "Battle of Alberta" contestants showing up at Climate Pledge Arena: the Calgary Flames Dec. 28 (with or without 100-point scorer Johnny Gaudreau?) and Edmonton Dec. 30 (with dynamic duo Connor McDavid and Leon Draisaitl).

Pacific Divisional Math

As the NHL schedule lays out a labyrinth across 1,312 regular season games, 32 teams, six divisions, four time zones and two conferences, there are some rules of the road for each division that represent the heart of the Kraken's schedule and potential path to the playoffs.
Seattle will face five Pacific Division opponents four times, two home, two away. For the 2022-23 season, those squads are Anaheim, Los Angeles, Vancouver, Vegas and Edmonton. The Kraken will play San Jose three times (two road games) and Calgary three times (two home games).
In those season series, Seattle plays LA three times before the end of November and finishes a three-game set with Calgary by late January.

Conferences Calling

As the league now boasts 32 franchises, the schedule makers have a chance to be more even-handed about intra- and inter-conference games. Per intra-conference dates, the Kraken will play three times against each team in the Central division, the other half of the Western conference. Half of those Central series will include two home games and one road contest, while the other four will translate to one home game in Seattle and two as visitors. For the curious ticket buyer, the Central team visiting twice this coming season are Dallas, St. Louis, Winnipeg and Arizona.
As for inter-conference play, the schedule against Eastern Conference teams is straightforward: one home game and one road game. This year's schedule include three "Original Six" home games at Climate Pledge Arena in February: Detroit (Feb. 18), Boston (Feb. 23) and Toronto (Feb. 26).

Monthly Matchup Planning, 2023

The new calendar year starts with a New Year's Day home game against the New York Islanders. It's a Sunday game, which means puck drop at 5 p.m. All Kraken Sunday home games will feature a 5 p.m. family-friendly, Monday-morning-back-to-work-friendly puck drop. There is one exception: the Feb. 26 Toronto visit starts at 4 p.m.
January at Climate Pledge Arena includes games against Stanley Cup finalists Tampa Bay (Jan. 16 for a 1 p.m. Martin Luther King Day matinee) and Colorado (Jan. 21). The Colorado game is part of a later-month five-game homestand with New Jersey, Vancouver, Calgary and Columbus also on the docket.
The aforementioned Detroit-Boston-Toronto home games in February is preceded by Philadelphia in town Feb. 16. March will bring Anaheim (early and late month), Ottawa, Dallas (twice in three days) and Edmonton to Climate Pledge Arena while April spotlights home games against Los Angeles, Arizona (twice in three days), Chicago (the only visit by the Original Six franchise) and Vegas.

Many Happy Returns?

Studying the schedule reveals fewer back-to-back nights for the Kraken, which played more than dozen such pairs last hockey year. The 2022-23 schedule plots eight back-to-back game dates for Seattle, one to open the season in October, then three in January, one each in February and March, and two in April. None are particularly foreboding per travel logistics though a mid-January double at Montreal and at Buffalo on successive nights does give pause if snow were to be involved.
A quirk of the 2022-23 schedule might be a quirk in today's NHL. Similar to last year, there will be games with opponents that bunch together. Some of the examples worth noting when considering possible home game tickets and/potential road trips to watch the Kraken: Seattle faces Pittsburgh on successive Saturdays in the fall (Oct. 29 home, Nov. 5 away) and have similar close-together rematches with Washington and Florida in early December. Edmonton and the Kraken play twice in five days as the calendar turns from 2022 to 2023, the Dallas Stars visit for two games at Climate Pledge Arena in March and, in what could be a particularly enticing finish to the season, mark down Seattle at Vegas April 11 and Vegas at Kraken April 13.

Winter Road Trippin'

January and February stack up as road-warrior months for the Kraken. January starts the ardor with a Jan. 1 home game against the New York Islanders, then Seattle heads to Edmonton to start a seven-game road swing Jan. 3. The next six foes: Toronto (Jan. 5), Ottawa (Jan. 7), Montreal (Jan. 9), Buffalo (the next night), Boston (Jan. 12) and Chicago (Jan. 14). Following an early morning Sunday arrival in Seattle, the Kraken play a Jan. 16 Monday matinee against Tampa Bay at Climate Pledge Arena, then head to Edmonton to face the Oilers that Tuesday night Jan 17.
February carries a five-game East Coast trip, albeit with three of those games in the New York metro area and one at nearby Philadelphia before finishing the voyage in Winnipeg (don't even think about mentioning the frozen white stuff).