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RoughRiders Release 2005-06 Schedule

RoughRiders Release 2005-06 Schedule

June 20, 2005- The Clark Cup Champion Cedar Rapids RoughRiders today released their 2005-06 shedule. The Riders will raise the team’s first ever championship banner to the rafters of the Cedar Rapids Ice Arena on Saturday, October 8, when they play their home opener against the Green Bay Gamblers. Including the home opener, the Riders will play 25 of their 30 home games on either Friday or Saturday. The Riders will play 10 Friday games and 15 Saturday contests. “We’re very excited about playing so many of our home games on Fridays and Saturdays this season. This is a very fan-friendly schedule,” said RoughRiders Vice President of Operations Jim Calpin. “It looks like this is going to be another very memorable season, one we can’t wait to get started.” The Riders will begin the 60-game United States Hockey League season with three straight road games. The Riders open the campaign on Saturday, September 24, when they take on the Tri-City Storm in Kearney, Nebraska. The Riders then travel to Green Bay to meet the Gamblers on Saturday, October 1. The arch rival Waterloo Black Hawks will no doubt provide a warm welcome on Friday, October 7, when the Riders visit Young Arena in Waterloo for the first time. The Riders will meet the Sioux City Musketeers for the first time since defeating the Muskies three games to two in last month’s Clark Cup Finals when they visit Sioux City on Sunday, October 9. That contest will be third in as many nights for the Riders, completing their only three-in-three stretch of the season. On Veterans’ Day- Friday, November 11- the Musketeers will make their first appearance at the ice arena since game five of the finals. The Riders will battle the Black Hawks in Cedar Rapids for the first time on Wednesday, November 23- the night before Thanksgiving. The rivals will complete their traditional holiday home-and-home series the following evening in Waterloo. The Riders and Hawks will meet a total of seven times over the course of the season as Cedar Rapids attempts to hold on to the i wireless Corridor Cup, the trophy awarded to the winner of the regular season series between the two clubs. The Riders last season won the Corridor Cup for the first time since 2001-02. The Riders will visit Waterloo four times and host three games against the Black Hawks. In addition to their November visit to the ice arena, the Hawks will also take on the Riders in Cedar Rapids on January 7 and March 10. The RoughRiders will also face each of their other four East Division rivals- Chicago, Des Moines, Green Bay and Indiana- seven times. The Riders will face the five clubs in the West Division (Lincoln, Omaha, Sioux City, Sioux Falls and Tri-City) five times. The first half of the Riders’ schedule is heavy on road games, the second half laden with home games. The Riders will play 19 of their first 30 games on the road and then play 19 of their final 30 at home. From November 24 through January 6, the Riders will play ten of 13 games on the road. They will play four of their last five games and seven of their final nine games on home ice. Other schedule highlights: <UL> <LI>The Riders’ home-and-home series October 21 and 22 with the Chicago Steel will mark the first meetings between the two teams since the Riders swept the Steel in last year’s East Division finals. <LI>The Riders and Indiana Ice- who were swept by the Riders in the first round of last year’s playoffs- will first meet on November 15 in Indiana. The Ice will make its first visit of the season to Cedar Rapids on December 10. <LI>The final month of the regular season will be the busiest for the Riders. Cedar Rapids plays 12 games from March 1 through its regular season finale on March 25 in Chicago. The Riders will play six games in just the first 11 days of March and nine games in the first 18 days of the month. <LI>The RoughRiders will play 11 games in January, ten in November, nine in December and February, eight in October and one in September. <LI>The RoughRiders will enjoy their longest home stand of the season when they play five straight games at the Cedar Rapids Ice Arena between February 3 and February 16. <LI>The Riders will play no more than three straight road games all season. <LI>The RoughRiders will be busy on and around holidays this season. In November, the Riders will host Sioux City on Veterans’ Day and play the Thanksgiving week home-and-home series with Waterloo. The Riders will ring in 2006 with a New Year’s Day visit to Omaha. The Riders will hope the luck of the Irish is with them when they host Tri-City on St. Patrick’s Day- Friday, March 17. <LI>The Riders will hope to avoid black cats and broken mirrors when they host Omaha on Friday, the thirteenth of January. <LI>For the RoughRiders, the USHL’s holiday break will run from December 18 through December 28. The Riders will play their final game before Christmas when they visit Indiana on Saturday, December 17 and will return from the break with a home tilt against Green Bay on Thursday, December 29.</LI></UL> 2005-06 season tickets are currently available through the RoughRiders business office (247-0340). Fans who pay for season tickets in full before August 31 will receive a 10% discount in addition to a host of other benefits available exclusively to season ticket holders. Single game tickets for the first half of the season will go on sale on a date to be determined in September. Once again this season all RoughRiders regular season and playoff games will be broadcast on AM-1360 The Fan in Cedar Rapids. Free audio webcasts of all Riders games will also be available on www.roughridershockey.com. Pay-per-view video webcasts of RoughRiders games will also be back. Video webcasts of all Riders regular season and playoff games- home and away- will be available this season. The RoughRiders last season won the first USHL Clark Cup (playoff) title in team history and also claimed a share of the Anderson Cup (regular season) title for the first time ever. The Riders went 42-13-5 last season, the best record in team history.

Posted on Tuesday, June 21, 2005 (Archive on Tuesday, June 21, 2005)

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