The 1,312-game regular-season schedule -- 82 games per team -- will conclude Thursday, April 16. A complete listing of each team’s 2025-26 regular-season schedule is attached, and each team’s home opener is listed below.

The NHL has released its 2025-26 regular-season schedule, with the Blueshirts opening at home on Oct. 7 vs. the Penguins. See all 82 games here.

NEW YORK — The NHL released the full 2025-26 schedule on Wednesday, the final 82-game season before the new collective bargaining agreement kicks in and increases it to 84.

Here's a look at several must-see games in 2025-26: For the second straight season the Panthers will raise a Stanley Cup banner, this time against Connor Bedard and Chicago, which has a new coach in Jeff Blashill and seeks to make the Stanley Cup Playoffs for the first time since 2020.

The Panthers have beaten the Oilers in back-to-back Stanley Cup Finals, and the regular-season rematches of the past two Cup Finals between the Panthers and Oilers are set for Nov. 22 in Florida and March 19 in Edmonton.

On Wednesday morning, the NHL announced the Buffalo Sabres home opener. The New York Rangers will come to town on Oct. 9. Last season the Sabres won in New York 6-1, but they split here in Buffalo against them winning 8-2 and losing 3-2.

Former NHL goaltender Wayne Thomas, who went on to have a lengthy career in hockey as a coach and an executive, has died from cancer. He was 77.

The NHL including the Seattle Kraken released the full 2025-26 schedule, the last 82-game slate before a new CBA kicks in and increases it to 84.

The New York Rangers had a precipitous fall in 2024-25. The Blue Shirts went from the Presidents’ Trophy in 2023-24 to a playoff miss in less than 12 months. The team was picked to win the Stanley Cup last season.