2026-27 NHL season to start on Sept. 29 with Carolina-Florida, Toronto-Montreal

As previously announced, the 2026-27 season will feature a number of special signature events.

The 2026 Tim Hortons NHL Heritage Classic between the Winnipeg Jets and Canadiens will be held on Oct. 25 at Princess Auto Stadium in Winnipeg.

The NHL will go back overseas for the 2026 Global Series Finland, featuring Hurricanes and the Seattle Kraken playing two games at Veikkaus Arena in Helsinki, Nov. 12 and 14.

The NHL will then head to Germany a month later when the Senators and Blackhawks play the 2026 Global Series Germany on Dec. 18 and 20 at PSD Bank Dome in Dusseldorf.

The Discover NHL Winter Classic will be held on Dec. 31 at the University of Utah’s Rice-Eccles Stadium with the Utah Mammoth and Avalanche battling in the shadow of the Greater Rockies.

Honda NHL All-Star Weekend returns Feb. 5-6, at UBS Arena on Long Island. The event will include the 2027 NHL All-Star Skills on Feb. 5, with players ages 25 and under, competing across eight events, and the 2027 Honda NHL All-Star Game Feb. 6, featuring five teams of 11 players each — Canada,  Finland, Sweden, the United States and a “World” team comprised of international players from countries outside of the other four teams — competing in a 3-on-3, round-robin exhibition tournament.

The third and final outdoor game of the season will be held on Feb. 20 at AT&T Stadium, home of the NFL’s Dallas Cowboys, when the Dallas Stars host the Golden Knights in the 2027 Navy Federal Credit Union Stadium Series.

The complete 2026-27 NHL regular-season schedule will be announced on Thursday at 1 p.m. ET, with NHL Network airing a one-hour special edition of “NHL Tonight” hosted by Jamison Coyle, Mike Rupp and E.J. Hradek. The special edition programming will also stream on NHL.com.