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Montreal Canadiens left wing Alexandre Texier (85) scores the game winning goal on Toronto Maple Leafs goaltender Dennis Hildeby (35) during a shootout in Toronto this past season.Frank Gunn\/The Canadian Press<\/p>\n

The 2026-27 NHL season is set to begin Sept. 29 with a pair of all-Canadian matchups.<\/p>\n

The Montreal Canadiens will visit the Toronto Maple Leafs, with the Edmonton Oilers later hosting the Vancouver Canucks.<\/p>\n

Both games will be on Sportsnet, under a newly branded broadcast. The company\u2019s sublicensing deal with the CBC for Hockey Night in Canada was not renewed.<\/p>\n

CBC to stop airing NHL games after 74 years, marking end of free hockey on Canadian TV<\/a><\/p>\n

The other Canadian home openers see the Calgary Flames host Seattle on Oct. 1, followed by the Canucks against Edmonton later that day. The Winnipeg Jets host Boston on Oct. 2, the Montreal Canadiens welcome Carolina on Oct. 6, and the Ottawa Senators face Philadelphia on Oct. 8.<\/p>\n

On Oct. 25, Winnipeg will host Montreal for an outdoor game in the NHL Heritage Classic.<\/p>\n

In Finland, for the NHL Global Series, Carolina will play Seattle in a pair of games on Nov. 12 and 14. The Senators and Chicago will play in Germany on Dec. 18 and 20.<\/p>\n

The Winter Classic will feature the Utah Mammoth and Colorado Avalanche at the University of Utah on Dec. 31. Meanwhile, the Dallas Stars will host the Vegas Golden Knights on Feb. 20 for an outdoor game at AT&T Stadium.<\/p>\n

All-star weekend will be held Feb. 5-6 at UBS Arena, home of the New York Islanders.<\/p>\n

This upcoming NHL season will mark the switch from 82 to 84 regular-season games for teams.<\/p>\n

The full schedule will be released on Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Open this photo in gallery: Montreal Canadiens left wing Alexandre Texier (85) scores the game winning goal on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":623548,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1018,1001,1019,967,991,1020,19,990,1008,1009,1004,992,989,1014,1016,1013,1007,1000,1030,993,994,1006,5,1002,1003,997,1021,998,1025,1026,4,1028,1023,1027,786,1024,995,1011,1012,333,1010,1022,86,1015,1017,1005,999,996,1029],"class_list":["post-623547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-alberta","tag-arts-news","tag-bc","tag-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news-video","tag-british-columbia","tag-canada","tag-canada-news","tag-canada-sports","tag-canada-sports-news","tag-canada-trafficcanada-weather","tag-canadian-breaking-news","tag-canadian-news","tag-economy","tag-education","tag-environment","tag-federal-government","tag-foreign-news","tag-globe-and-mail","tag-globe-and-mail-breaking-news","tag-globe-and-mail-canada-news","tag-government","tag-hockey","tag-life-news","tag-lifestyle","tag-local-news","tag-manitoba","tag-national-news","tag-new-brunswick","tag-newfoundland-and-labrador","tag-nhl","tag-northwest-territories","tag-nova-scotia","tag-nunavut","tag-ontario","tag-pei","tag-photos","tag-political-news","tag-political-opinion","tag-politics","tag-politics-news","tag-quebec","tag-sports-news","tag-technology","tag-travel","tag-trudeau","tag-us-news","tag-world-news","tag-yukon"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=623547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623547\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/623548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=623547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=623547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=623547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}