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topicnews · July 16, 2025

Publication of the NHL time plan: Analysis of the largest games and data of the 2025-26 season

Publication of the NHL time plan: Analysis of the largest games and data of the 2025-26 season


If nothing else, give the NHL a credit for the time of its complete schedule. Until July 16, unless they are not deeply taking care of the future of Jack Roslovic, most major questions from the offseason were answered.

Today we are all free to search the finer points of the calendar of the league for the 2025-26 season. The following year, when the schedule comes into force with 84 games, things will look a little different. This time the schedule is cited by an Olympic break in February and a schedule, which lasts from October 7 to April 16.

Some other data are mixed that should have additional interest, be it for one or 32 fan base. Here you can see the big ones.

October 7: opening night

On the first night of the schedule there are a total of game-one triple header. Things begin with Blackhawks-Panther in Sunrise, Florida, at 5 p.m. Connor Bedard against the Champions? It could be worse. Penguins-Rangers follow at 8 p.m. ET, which the Mike Sullivan Bowl will call. The night ends with the Avalanche pillows. Both teams are good, which will be a nice change.

October 11th and October 28th: Schiefer stacked

When all 32 teams play on the same day, there is always a nice little gimmick, and the NHL is taking off on a Saturday and Tuesday in October. If you are also a college football fan, prepare yourself to change a serious change on the couch or at the bar.

October 21: The return of the rat

When the Panthers visited the Bruins in Boston on March 11, Marchand was not in the line -up for both teams. Florida had acquired him at the time of the deadline, but he had got out the path with a injury to the upper body. This brought his return to the TD Garden into autumn and completely changed the dynamic time for the Matchup Panthers Bruins. Now, instead of a freshly traded franchise icon, it is a two-time Stanley cup champion and helps another status of the franchise chase dynasty.

November 8: Schaefer meets MSG

“How excited are you to play your first game in Madison Square Garden?” It's a bit of a cliché, but this is because the answer is often heard. The vibes at MSG are so unique. And more applies to defender Matthew Schaefer; He was not only number 1 in the draft of 2025 – it was selected by the islanders. The New York-New York Rivalry will always bring a lot of juice, especially with what Schaefer recently informed an NHL.com podcast about the Rangers: “I hate losing it, so I look forward to beating it every time we play it.” Here he will find out how Islanders Rangers really looks like for the first time.

November 14th and November 16: A Swede

The league again sends teams for games of the regular season for overseas. This time it is the predators and penguins that play two games in Sweden. It will be interesting to see whether the defender of Pittsburgh Erik Karlsson, one of the best Swedish players in his generation and a potential retail candidate of the Offseason, is part of the campaign.

November 22nd: A reserve of a retirement

At that time it is strange to see how the Panthers and Oilers play against each other before June. However, Stanley Cup setbacks are always big nights in the calendar and in recent history this principle applies even more. The big question will still be who is on the net for the oilers when they organize the Panthers here.

November 28: Holiday Hockey

We get another Thanksgiving Day game in the USA. This time the Rangers play the Bruins in Boston.

January 2 and February 1: sunshine glasses

Both outdoor games of this season are staged in Florida. The first is the winter classic between the Rangers and Panthers in the Landepot Park in Miami, the home of the Marlins. The second is a game of the stadium series between the Bruins and Lightning in the Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Fla, the home of the Buccaneers.

January 17: O Canada

The consequence of the hockey day in Canada this season – when all seven Canadian teams play throughout the afternoon and evening – can be seen in Ottawa. Toronto at Winnipeg; The islanders in Calgary; and Edmonton in Vancouver.

January 19: Captain Serious comes back

The fact that Jonathan Toews plays games is worth mentioning; He signed a one -year contract with Winnipeg after working out in the last two seasons due to a variety of health problems. But his return to Chicago – where he led three Stanley Cup team and established his reputation as one of the best centers in his generation – is the big one. Even beloved superstars can get a mixed reaction on such nights. In the case of Toews, however, they expect nothing more than a comprehensive veneration.

January 23: Marner Mania

If you hoped that the Marner saga, at least how it refers to the Maple Leafs, would end in July, we have some disappointing news. Whatever comes next to him in Las Vegas is always viewed in one way or another through the prism of his time in Toronto – what happened, what did not happen and how everything ended. Our first big memory of this will be his first game as a visitor in the Scotiabank Arena for Golden Knights-Maple Leafs. Bet with many boos, even from the platinum seats.

February 6th to February 24th: take a break

The NHL schedule is completely deleted for this route. Hockey is of course still played at the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milan and Cortina, Italy.

March 6: Disorder of the deadline?

We get seven games on the NHL retail day, which … how much seems to be. Prepare for many unpleasant morning skills and sometimes empty duty rosters.

April 12: Malkin's farewell – and more?

This should be Evgeni Malkin's last game against his greatest competitors, and that is the end of an era: Penguins chapter, with Malkin, one of the main participants of one of the league of the league for almost two decades. Time, age and the decline of the penguins have decreased part of the gloss in recent years, but if this is the last game of Pittsburgh-Washington for Malkin-and maybe Alex Ovechkin or Kris Letang or (slip) Sidney Crosby-is worth the calendar.

April 15: The race down

In the route we will monitor the bottom of the overall ranking to see who ends in the pole position for the Gavin McKenna Derby. Haie-Blackhawks here on the second last day of the regular season is certainly one that can be observed. In the meantime, the penguins end their schedule against the blues the night before.

((Photo by Marner, left, opposite the Golden Knights last season: Nick Turchiaro / USA Today)