{"id":3398,"date":"2025-07-17T18:00:05","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T18:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/3398\/"},"modified":"2025-07-17T18:00:05","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T18:00:05","slug":"nhl-releases-full-2025-26-schedule-with-final-82-game-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/3398\/","title":{"rendered":"NHL Releases Full 2025 26 Schedule With Final 82 Game Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The NHL released the full 2025-26 schedule Wednesday, the final 82-game season before the new collective bargaining agreement kicks in and increases it to 84.<\/p>\n<p>The league&#8217;s 32 teams will combine to play 1,312 games between Oct. 7 and April 16 with the playoffs to run from the following weekend through much of June. Beginning in 2026-27, there will be 1,344 games &#8212; the most in NHL history.<\/p>\n<p>Alex Ovechkin will begin his 21st season Oct. 8 when he and the Washington Capitals host Boston. Ovechkin is at 897 career goals after breaking Wayne Gretzky&#8217;s record and can add to his total at age 40.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NHL released the full 2025-26 schedule Wednesday, the final 82-game season before the new collective bargaining agreement&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3399,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,4409,448,4410,4408,4407,82],"class_list":["post-3398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-national-hockey-league-news","tag-nhl","tag-nhl-fantasy-news","tag-nhl-news","tag-nhl-rumors","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3398\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}