{"id":48000,"date":"2025-08-05T22:10:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T22:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/48000\/"},"modified":"2025-08-05T22:10:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T22:10:13","slug":"edmonton-oilers-will-have-the-worst-travel-schedule-in-entire-nhl-next-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/48000\/","title":{"rendered":"Edmonton Oilers will have the worst travel schedule in entire NHL next season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Edmonton Oilers will have the worst travel schedule in the entire NHL next season.<\/p>\n<p>After yet another shorter-than-usual summer thanks to a run to the Stanley Cup Final, the schedule-makers decided not to do any favours for the Oilers. Though Edmonton will embark on just 14 roadtrips during the 2025-26 NHL season \u2014 one of the fewest in the league \u2014 they will travel the most total miles of any team.<\/p>\n<p>Bookies.com, an American online sportsbook, <a href=\"https:\/\/bookies.com\/news\/2025-26-nhl-miles-traveled-oilers-top-list-islanders-stay-closest-to-home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">released a study on the amount of travel all 32 teams are expected to take<\/a> during the upcoming season. The Oilers ranked at the top of the list with 54,425.60 miles of expected travel (that equates to 87,589.5 kilometres).<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">NHL Miles Traveled 2025-26<\/p>\n<p>The 32 NHL teams will travel more than 1.3 million this season, with Pittsburgh and Nashville visiting Sweden, and the Oilers taking a 7,114-mile trip acoss  North America. <\/p>\n<p>Full Story &amp; Details In Comments <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/sjtaTfcVgU\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/sjtaTfcVgU<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Bill Speros (@billsperos) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/billsperos\/status\/1949912353136312484?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">July 28, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a bit shocking to see Edmonton at the top of the list, considering other teams like the Pittsburgh Penguins and Nashville Predators will be travelling across the Atlantic Ocean to start the season in Sweden. Those teams rank second and sixth, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>The Oilers are the NHL\u2019s northern-most franchise and are rather remote when it comes to their proximity to other teams, outside of the Calgary Flames. This would be a factor that could cause longer-than-usual travel as compared to other NHL teams.<\/p>\n<p>Edmonton will have to get used to the travel <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/oilers\/schedule\/2025-10-01\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">early on in the season<\/a> as they will embark on a five-game road trip to the Eastern U.S. and Canada in mid-October. They will then head back east in November for a seven-gamer that starts in Philadelphia and ends in Florida, making this the longest road trip of the season.<\/p>\n<p>In total, the Oilers will fly into the eastern timezone on three separate occasions between October and December. While Edmonton doesn\u2019t go on as many road trips as other teams, it seems like they tend to be much longer than the average team, thus racking up the kilometres.<\/p>\n<p>Here is where the other Canadian NHL teams rank:<\/p>\n<p>Vancouver Canucks (5th): 48,378 miles (77,856.84 km)<br \/>\nCalgary Flames (10th): 44,063 miles (70,912.52 km)<br \/>\nWinnipeg Jets (12th): 43,455 miles (69,934.04 km)<br \/>\nOttawa Senators (18th): 38,745 miles (62,354.03 km)<br \/>\nMontreal Canadiens (27th): 35,057 miles (56,418.77 km)<br \/>\nToronto Maple Leafs (31st): 32,134 miles (51,714.66 km)<\/p>\n<p>The New York Islanders will have the least amount of travel this upcoming season, sitting at just 28,477 miles (45,829.28 km), which is nearly 26,000 miles less than the Oilers. The close proximity of the NHL\u2019s Eastern Conference teams gives them an advantage on travel, with the Minnesota Wild being the least-travelled Western Conference team at 37,138 miles (59,767.81 km), which ranks 21st in the league.<\/p>\n<p>Nothing will be easy for the Oilers, but they should be used to all the travel at this point, especially after two Stanley Cup Final series against the Florida Panthers.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Edmonton Oilers will have the worst travel schedule in the entire NHL next season. 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