NLL Announces 2005 Schedule
Published on October 8, 2004 under National Lacrosse League (NLL) News Release
The National Lacrosse League has announced its 2005 regular season schedule. The regular season will begin on New Year's Day, January 1st, 2005. The season kicks off on January 1 with a pair of games. The expansion Minnesota NLL team will travel to Rochester to face the Rochester Knighthawks at 7:35pm Eastern. Later that evening, the Colorado Mammoth host the 2004 Champion's Cup winning Calgary Roughnecks in what has become the biggest rivalry of the West Division. Gametime is 7pm Moutain.
The regular season schedule consists of 88 games, to be played over sixteen weekends. The regular season begins on January 1st and concludes on April 17th, with the Champion's Cup Playoffs to follow. The 2005 NLL All-Star Game will be played in Calgary on Sunday, February 27th.
Each of the league's eleven teams will play sixteen regular season games. The five teams of the East Division (Buffalo, Minnesota, Philadelphia, Rochester and Toronto) will play each other three times, accounting for twelve of their sixteen regular season games. The other four games will be against teams from the West Division. The six teams of the West Division (Anaheim, Arizona, Calgary, Colorado, San Jose and Vancouver) will play each other at least twice during the regular season.
The 2005 NLL Regular Season Schedule:
(all times are local)
Week Day Date Game Local Time
1 Sat. Jan. 1 Calgary at Colorado 7:00
Minnesota at Rochester 7:35
2 Fri. Jan. 7 Philadelphia at Arizona 7:30
San Jose at Calgary 7:30
Toronto at Buffalo 7:30
Sat. Jan. 8 Philadelphia at Anaheim 7:30
Arizona at Colorado 7:00
Vancouver at San Jose 7:30
3 Sat. Jan. 15 Arizona at Rochester 7:35
Minnesota at Toronto 7:30
4 Fri. Jan. 21 Colorado at Arizona 7:30
Calgary at Vancouver 8:00 Buffalo at Minnesota 7:30
Sat. Jan. 22 Rochester at Anaheim 7:30
Vancouver at Calgary 7:30
Buffalo at Colorado 7:00
Arizona ay San Jose 7:30
Toronto at Philadelphia 8:00
5 Fri. Jan. 28 Anaheim at Minnesota 7:30
Buffalo at Philadelphia 7:30
Rochester at Toronto 7:30
Sat. Jan. 29 Calgary at Anaheim 7:30
Colorado at San Jose 7:30
Arizona at Vancouver 5:00
Philadelphia at Buffalo 7:30
Toronto at Rochester 7:35
6 Fri. Feb. 4 Vancouver at Arizona 8:00
Colorado at Calgary 7:30
Sat. Feb. 5 Anaheim at Vancouver 5:00
San Jose at Philadelphia 8:00
7 Fri. Feb. 11 Toronto at Minnesota 7:30
Anaheim at Buffalo 7:30
Sat. Feb. 12 Philadelphia at Rochester 7:35
Calgary at Toronto 7:30
Sun. Feb. 13 Minnesota at Anaheim 6:00
Arizona at Colorado 7:00
8 Fri. Feb. 18 Minnesota at Arizona 7:30
Anaheim at Calgary 7:30
Colorado at San Jose 7:30
Toronto at Vancouver 8:00 Rochester at Philadelphia 7:30
Sat. Feb. 19 Buffalo at Rochester 7:35
Sun. Feb. 20 Philadelphia at Minnesota 2:00
9 Thur. Feb. 24 San Jose at Colorado 7:00
Fri. Feb. 25 Rochester at Toronto 7:30
Sat. Feb 26 Arizona at Anaheim 7:30
San Jose at Vancouver 5:00
Philadelphia at Buffalo 7:30
Sun. Feb 27 All-Star Game at Calgary 2:00
10 Fri. Mar. 4 Buffalo at Toronto 7:30
Sat. Mar. 5 Minnesota at Philadelphia 8:00
11 Fri. Mar. 11 San Jose at Arizona 7:30
Buffalo at Minnesota 7:30
Sat. Mar. 12 Vancouver at Anaheim 7:30
Arizona at San Jose 7:30
Rochester at Philadelphia 8:00
Sun. Mar. 13 Calgary at Colorado 1:00
12 Fri. Mar. 18 San Jose at Calgary 7:30
Colorado at Philadelphia 7:30
Minnesota at Buffalo 7:30
Vancouver at Toronto 7:30
Sat. Mar. 19 Calgary at San Jose 7:30
Buffalo at Rochester 7:35
Sun. Mar. 20 Anaheim at Colorado 1:00
13 Fri. Mar. 25 Calgary at Arizona 7:30
Anaheim at San Jose 7:30
Colorado at Vancouver 8:00
Rochester at Minnesota 7:30
Sat. Mar. 26 Toronto at Buffalo 7:30
Minnesota at Rochester 7:35
14 Fri. Apr. 1 Vancouver at Minnesota 7:30
Rochester at Buffalo 7:30
Philadelphia at Toronto 7:30
Sat. Apr. 2 San Jose at Anaheim 7:30
Sun. Apr. 3 Arizona at Calgary 2:00
Vancouver at Colorado 7:00
15 Fri. Apr. 8 Anaheim at Vancouver 8:00
Sat. Apr. 9 Colorado at Anaheim 7:30
Buffalo at Arizona 7:30
Vancouver at Calgary 7:30
Rochester at San Jose 7:30
Toronto at Philadelphia 8:00
Sun. Apr. 10 Minnesota at Toronto 7:30
Colorado at Rochester 7:35
16 Sat. Apr. 16 Anaheim at Arizona 7:30
Calgary at Vancouver 5:00
San Jose at Buffalo 7:30
Sun. Apr. 17 Toronto at Calgary 2:00
*subject to change
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