{"id":803888,"date":"2026-07-15T17:17:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T17:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/803888\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T17:17:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T17:17:11","slug":"vancouver-canucks-to-begin-nhl-season-earlier-than-ever-before-daily-hive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/803888\/","title":{"rendered":"Vancouver Canucks to begin NHL season earlier than ever before | Daily Hive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When the puck drops for the Vancouver Canucks\u2019 57th NHL season, the club will make history.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, the NHL released a schedule of every team\u2019s home opener. For the first time ever, the Canucks will begin their regular season in September.<\/p>\n<p>Vancouver will visit the Edmonton Oilers at Rogers Place on Tuesday, Sept. 29, which is the first day of the 2026-27 NHL regular season. Two days later, the Canucks will have their home opener on Thursday, Oct. 1, where they\u2019ll once again face the Oilers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dailyhive.com\/calgary-flames-final-home-opener-saddledome-revealed\/image-from-ios-6-21\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2293761 nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img alt=\"nhl-schedule\" title=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2293761\" style=\"color:transparent\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Image-from-iOS-6.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2293761\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The NHL revealed the home openers for each NHL team on Wednesday. (NHL)<\/p>\n<p>Before this NHL schedule tease was revealed, the earliest the Canucks ever played a regular-season game was on Oct. 1. That occurred against the Calgary Flames in 2009.<\/p>\n<p>The NHL regular season is expanding to 84 games, starting in 2026-27, based on the new Collective Bargaining Agreement that was finalized last June. This CBA is a four-year agreement, meaning that an 84-game regular season will be the norm for the foreseeable future.<\/p>\n<p>Because the regular season has been extended, there are now only four preseason games for each NHL team.<\/p>\n<p>The last time Vancouver played Edmonton to open the season <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyhive.com\/vancouver\/oilers-fan-brawls-canucks-fans\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">was a memorable affair<\/a>, as they walloped the Oilers 8-1 at Rogers Arena to begin one of their best seasons in franchise history. Brock Boeser scored four goals in that game, while J.T. Miller and Elias Pettersson had four points each.<\/p>\n<p>Feels like a lifetime ago now.<\/p>\n<p>Vancouver will officially open up their regular season against either Edmonton or the Calgary Flames for the 13th consecutive year. The last time they opened their campaign against a different team was back in 2013-14, when the Canucks began their regular season against the San Jose Sharks.<\/p>\n<p>Following the home opener release, the NHL will unveil the entire schedule for the 2026-27 NHL season on Thursday, July 16, at 10 a.m. PT.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When the puck drops for the Vancouver Canucks\u2019 57th NHL season, the club will make history. On Wednesday,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":803889,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194298],"tags":[49,48,55],"class_list":["post-803888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-vancouver","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-vancouver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803888","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=803888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803888\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/803889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=803888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=803888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=803888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}