February is about to get busy. The Kraken will play 10 games in the month originally scheduled for a three-week Winter Olympics break to allow dozens of NHL players to represent their countries in Beijing. Seattle was originally scheduled to play three games in February.
Six of the Kraken added to February are postponed games now rescheduled. One more is a road game at Anaheim originally planned for March 25 and now is marked for Feb. 11.
One other existing game, a road contest at Arizona, has be moved up a day to March 22 from the original March 23 date.
Here is the new February schedule with notes, including ticket redemption for postponed home games (all times Pacific):
If you hold tickets for the postponed Jan. 6 home game against Ottawa, that game has been moved to April 18. All original tickets for postponed home games at Climate Pledge Arena will be valid.
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for questions about tickets for Toronto, Arizona, New York Islanders and Ottawa.
The revised schedule adds one back-to-back pair of games for the Kraken. Moving the March 25 Anaheim to Feb. 11 subtracts one back-to-back. Plus, the Dec. 19 Toronto postponement eliminated another back-to-back. The result is the Kraken will have 12 such challenges over the season instead of 13.
This new consecutive-night pair includes a road game with division rival Vancouver, the final game of a three-games-in-five nights swing visiting Winnipeg, Calgary and then the Canucks. The next night after Vancouver, the New York Islanders will be in town for a matchup at Climate Pledge Arena. That's four games in six nights.
The Kraken will now play 12 games in March instead of 13. The added Ottawa home game April 18 bumps the Seattle game total to 15 during April.
While players will not get the three-week break due the the NHL and NHL Players' Association withdrawing from the Beijing Olympics because the league's regular season was "materially impacted" by COVID postponements, the Kraken will have seven days without a game after playing Boston on the road (Feb. 1, finishing a four-game road trip out East) and now facing Arizona at home Feb. 9. The week-long break includes NHL All-Star Weekend Feb. 4 and 5 for Jordan Eberle.
Across the league, the NHL rescheduled 98 games postponed between Nov. 18 and Jan. 18, plus changed dates for 22 other games "to accommodate the new dates for postponed games." The plan allows the regular-season to still end April 29 for all 32 teams.
There are 95 games identified for the 16-day window from Feb. 7 to 22, the official period previously designated to allow NHLers to play in the Olympics. NHL games are now scheduled on all 16 days, including an 11-game setup Feb. 17.
"We are profoundly grateful to our fans for their support and understanding during a challenging time and to our clubs, the NHL Players' Association and the players for their cooperation in a rescheduling of unprecedented logistical complexity," said Bill Daly, NHL deputy commissioner.
The revised schedules for all 32 teams can be found here.
