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 2025-26 NHL schedule released Wednesday came with plenty of potentially intriguing matchups if they materialize. Top draft pick Matthew Schaefer could make his New York Islanders debut

The three most important events of the NHL offseason are the draft, the opening of free agency, and the release of the upcoming season’s schedule. For the New York Rangers, the latter finally signifies that the page has turned on a disastrous 2024–25 campaign.

Bowen Byram and the Buffalo Sabres avoided salary arbitration by signing a two-year, $12.5 million contract extension with a $6.25 million average annual value (AAV) on Monday.

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.

The hockey world has been thrust into mourning once again following the confirmed passing of former New York Rangers, Montreal Canadiens, and Toronto Maple Leafs goaltender Wayne Thomas at 77.

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.

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.