{"id":624273,"date":"2026-07-16T22:57:34","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T22:57:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/624273\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T22:57:34","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T22:57:34","slug":"nashville-predators-will-play-2-more-games-this-upcoming-season-for-the-first-time-since-the-90s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/624273\/","title":{"rendered":"Nashville Predators will play 2 more games this upcoming season for the first time since the \u201890s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) &#8211; The Smashville schedule for the 2026-2027 NHL season has been released \u2014 and it comes with a couple of bonuses. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Nashville Predators said on Thursday that the upcoming season will feature 84 games, two more than usual, for the first time since the 1993-94 NHL season. The schedule will also see a \u201cfranchise-record\u201d 42 regular season games at Bridgestone Arena. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The season kicks off on Oct. 1 as the Preds face off against Minnesota. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsmv.com\/page\/our-apps\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"100%\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1782163634_913_WCZWEBRKNJC6BHZCWR4ZBCEHIA.png\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">With dozens of games to potentially check out, the Preds say these are the top 10 home games to watch in Nashville. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">2026 games<\/p>\n<p>October 1 vs. Minnesota Wild, 7 p.m. October 3 vs. Dallas Stars at 7 p.m. October 25 vs. Colorado Avalanche at 7 p.m. October 31 vs. Tampa Bay Lightning at 1 p.m. November 3 vs Carolina Hurricanes at 7 p.m.November 27 vs Utah Mammoth at noonDecember 26 vs Detroit Red Wings at 6 p.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\"> 2027 games<\/p>\n<p>January 1 vs. Florida Panthers at 1 p.m. February 13 vs. Anaheim Ducks at 12:30 p.m. April 10 vs. Dallas Stars at 5 p.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">See the full schedule <a href=\"https:\/\/nhl.com\/predators\/schedule\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/nhl.com\/predators\/schedule\">here<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WSMV. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) &#8211; The Smashville schedule for the 2026-2027 NHL season has been released \u2014 and it&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":489212,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5119],"tags":[2416,5,68628,2409,231,5281,4,2410,68629,22624],"class_list":["post-624273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nashville-predators","tag-bridgestone-arena","tag-hockey","tag-hockey-schedule","tag-nashville","tag-nashville-predators","tag-nashvillepredators","tag-nhl","tag-predators","tag-preds-schedule","tag-smashville"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116932132705838047","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624273","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=624273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624273\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/489212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=624273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=624273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=624273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}