2026-2027 schedule announced by NHL and the L.A. Kings.<\/p>\n
The Los Angeles Kings<\/a> and National Hockey League (NHL) have announced the club\u2019s 84-game 2026-2027 season schedule. The start of the season will begin on Wednesday, September 30 at 8 p.m. MT, visiting the Colorado Avalanche<\/a> hockey team at Ball Arena.<\/p>\n The Kings will play their home opener on Tuesday, October 6, when they host the Florida Panthers<\/a> at 7:30 p.m. at Crypto.com Arena.<\/p>\n The L.A. Kings will play five of their 12 October games in downtown Los Angeles, including a matchup against Pacific Division rival Edmonton Oilers<\/a> on Tuesday, October 13. The team will also face 10 back-to-back game situations throughout the upcoming season, including a home-and-home series against their Freeway rival, the Anaheim Ducks<\/a>. The series begins Friday, November 27, at Honda Center and continues Saturday, November 28, at Crypto.com Arena.<\/p>\n As the season progresses, the Kings will benefit from several extended stretches at home. Los Angeles will have two extended stretches on home ice this season, with a pair of seven-game homestands scheduled from October 29 through November 14 and December 30, 2026, through January 13, 2027. <\/p>\n The schedule will also challenge the Kings on the road with the team\u2019s longest trip away from home coming later in the season. The Kings embark on a seven-game road stretch featuring stops in Nashville, Florida, Tampa Bay, Philadelphia, Carolina, Dallas, and St. Louis from January 23 through February 9.<\/p>\n Along with the demanding stretches of the schedule, the Kings will face several high-profile opponents throughout the season. The Kings will host the Vegas Golden Knights<\/a> on December 1 and April 8. The Kings will also face the defending Stanley Cup champion Carolina Hurricanes<\/a> on March 18 and host NHL career goals leader Alex Ovechkin<\/a> on January 6.<\/p>\n Scroll to continue reading<\/p>\n Ticket information for the upcoming season, including single-game availability and season memberships, will be announced by the Kings at a later date.<\/p>\n From early-season rivalry matchups to key late-season tests, the Kings\u2019 2026-27 schedule will provide plenty of opportunities for the team to make its mark throughout the season. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2026-2027 schedule announced by NHL and the L.A. Kings. The Los Angeles Kings and National Hockey League (NHL)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":447318,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5126],"tags":[233,193,1530,146,5,186,6304,1760,240,5303,793,145,5304,5302,4],"class_list":["post-625086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles-kings","tag-anaheim-ducks","tag-avalanche","tag-crypto-com-arena","tag-edmonton-oilers","tag-hockey","tag-kings","tag-l-a-kings","tag-la","tag-la-kings","tag-lakings","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-kings","tag-losangeles","tag-losangeleskings","tag-nhl"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116937558823772812","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625086","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=625086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625086\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/447318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=625086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=625086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=625086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}