20120 Schedule Notes

The big story of the day is of course our new coach, but I wanted to throw some notes about the schedule out first.

Teams we play at home only:
Columbus (season opener)
Chicago
KC
Montreal
Houston (season finale)

Teams we play on the road only:
Toronto
Philly
DC
NY
New England (no Jameson's night this year)

Teams we play at home twice and on the road once:
Portland
LA
Chivas
San Jose

Teams we play on the road twice and once at home:
Vancouver
Seattle
FSL
Dallas

So FSL has the edge in this year's Rocky Mountain Cup, which will be decided by August, the earliest ever. All 4 Eastern trips involve going all the way to the East Coast (or almost there in Toronto's case) while our closer neighbors (Chicago, KC, Houston) come here.

We deal with some fixture congestion, here are the times we play more than one game a week:

April 28th - May 6th: Chivas, @NE, @Dallas
then we get a rest until we play @DC and KC on May 16th and 19th

June 16th-20th: @Vancouver, SJ
then we get a rest until we play the Cascadia 3 between June 30th and July 7th: Portland, Vancouver (4th game), @Seattle
then a week later, between the 14th and 21st we play: Dallas, @Toronto, @FSL

We get almost a week between Aug 25th and 31st where we play @SJ, @Portland, followed by Portland at home on Sept. 5th.

That 8 game stretch between June 16th and July 21st could be brutal, especially since we have to fly to Toronto during it.