{"id":214766,"date":"2026-06-09T17:46:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T17:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/214766\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T17:46:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T17:46:07","slug":"erie-otters-announce-home-opener-against-kitchener-rangers-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/214766\/","title":{"rendered":"Erie Otters announce Home Opener against Kitchener Rangers | Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Erie Otters Home Opener - 1\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full default\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>The Erie Otters will open their 2026-27 home schedule on Saturday, Sept. 26, when they welcome the OHL and Memorial Cup champion Kitchener Rangers to Erie Insurance Arena. The game will start at 6:00 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>This will mark the second straight season the Otters have opened their home schedule against the Kitchener Rangers. It is the sixth time in the Otters&#8217; 30-year history that they have opened at home against their division rival.<\/p>\n<p>All fans will receive a Home Opener Rally Towel. The team will announce further details about the home opener, including Fan Fest, at a later date.<\/p>\n<p>The Otters will open the season at the Guelph Storm on Friday, Sept. 18, at 7:07 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Erie Otters will open their 2026-27 home schedule on Saturday, Sept. 26, when they welcome the OHL&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":214767,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[136,138,137,17019,69709,34032,94090,11170],"class_list":["post-214766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-erie-otters","tag-home-opener","tag-kitchener-rangers","tag-memorial-cup","tag-ohl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214766\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}