Who is playing in the 2026 NHL Winter Classic? Who are the top players?<\/p>\n
The 2026 Winter Classic will feature the Florida Panthers and New York Rangers. The defending Stanley Cup champion Panthers are the home team.<\/p>\n
As of the end of 29 December 2025, the Panthers sit in the second Wild Card spot in the Eastern Conference and fourth in the Atlantic Division on 44 points (21\u201315\u20132).<\/p>\n
The Rangers are fourth in the Eastern Wild Card race and fifth in\u00a0the Metropolitan Division on 43 points (19\u201317\u20135).<\/p>\n
The Panthers’ top scorer is currently veteran\u00a0Brad Marchand (22 goals – 22 assists \u2014 44 points), followed right behind by fellow Canadian Sam Reinhart (21-21\u201442).<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, the Rangers have been a little lacking in the goalscoring department this season. They are led by\u00a0Artemi Panarin (14-25\u201439) in goals, assists, and points.<\/p>\n
How can I watch the 2026 NHL Winter Classic live?<\/p>\n
The NHL Winter Classic will be shown by the various NHL rights-holders around the world.<\/p>\n
In the United States, this will be on TNT (NHL on TNT) and TruTV, with streaming on HBO MAX.<\/p>\n
In Canada, the game will be shown on Sportsnet (in English) and TVA Sports (in French).<\/p>\n
Globally, the game may be available on the NHL’s own NHL.TV platform subject to geographical blackouts. Other global rights-holders may also broadcast the game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Who is playing in the 2026 NHL Winter Classic? Who are the top players? The 2026 Winter Classic…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":380509,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-380508","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=380508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380508\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/380509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}