The NHL released its regular season schedule Wednesday and as expected, the San Jose Sharks won’t be playing home games at SAP Center anytime soon.
The Sharks’ first eight games of the season will be away from San Jose, as they start the year by playing two games each against Arizona, St. Louis, Minnesota and Colorado from Jan. 14 to Jan 28. It is the Sharks’ longest road trip of their 56-game season.
The first games the Sharks are scheduled to play in San Jose are Feb. 1 and 3 against the Vegas Golden Knights. However, Santa Clara County’s ban on contact sports, as well as its mandatory 10-day quarantine for anyone traveling to the county from more than 150 miles away, may force those games to be relocated.
Santa Clara’s directives are in place until at least Jan. 8, and it is unclear whether they would be extended further into next month. The Sharks announced Sunday that their training camp will be held in Scottsdale, Arizona.
The Sharks said in a news release that the location of those home games in early February will announced at a later date, “in accordance with current local health directives.”
If the Sharks can make it though the five weeks of their schedule, when they play 14 of their first 18 games on the road, they could be in good shape. Eighteen of their final 28 games at scheduled to be played in San Jose, although it is unknown when fans would be allowed inside SAP Center.
The Sharks are in the same division as Arizona, Anaheim, Colorado, Los Angeles, Minnesota, St. Louis and Vegas. Each team is scheduled to play each other eight times, four at home and four on the road, for a 56-game regular season. Teams will play each other twice in a row to reduce costs at limit exposure.
The Sharks are scheduled to play on back-to-back nights 12 times — six times at home and six times on the road. Their longest homestand is six games from Feb. 26 to March 6.
There are three five-day breaks between games built into the schedule to allow time for possible make-up games to be played. For the Sharks, those breaks occur from Feb. 21 to Feb. 25, March 7 to March 11 and April 4-8.
SAN JOSE SHARKS SCHEDULE
Jan. 14 at Arizona
Jan. 16 at Arizona
Jan. 18 at St. Louis
Jan. 20 at St. Louis
Jan. 22 at Minnesota
Jan. 24 at Minnesota
Jan. 26 at Colorado
Jan. 28 at Colorado
Feb. 1 vs. Vegas
Feb. 3 vs. Vegas
Feb. 5 at Anaheim
Feb. 6 at Anaheim
Feb. 9 at Los Angeles
Feb. 11 at Los Angeles
Feb. 13 vs. Anaheim
Feb. 15 vs. Anaheim
Feb. 18 at St. Louis
Feb. 20 at St. Louis
Feb. 26 vs. St. Louis
Feb. 27 vs. St. Louis
March 1 vs. Colorado
March 3 vs. Colorado
March 5 vs. Vegas
March 6 vs. Vegas
March 12 at Anaheim
March 13 at Anaheim
March 15 at Vegas
March 17 at Vegas
March 19 vs. St. Louis
March 20 vs. St. Louis
March 22 vs. Los Angeles
March 24 vs. Los Angeles
March 26 at Arizona
March 27 at Arizona
March 29 vs. Minnesota
March 31 vs. Minnesota
April 2 at Los Angeles
April 3 at Los Angeles
April 9 vs. Los Angeles
April 10 vs. Los Angeles
April 12 vs. Anaheim
April 14 vs. Anaheim
April 16 at Minnesota
April 17 at Minnesota
April 19 at Vegas
April 21 at Vegas
April 23 vs. Minnesota
April 24 vs. Minnesota
April 26 vs. Arizona
April 28 vs. Arizona
April 30 at Colorado
May 1 at Colorado
May 3 vs. Colorado
May 5 vs. Colorado
May 7 vs. Arizona
May 8 vs. Arizona
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