The Flyers are facing some new territory in 2026-27.<\/p>\n
Not only has the NHL shifted to an 84-game schedule for every team, but the Flyers are also amid a much shorter offseason. Coming off a run to the second of the playoffs<\/a> and with two more games this season, the Flyers’ summer break has been cut down by a month.<\/p>\n The club has 143 days between the end of last season and the start of this season. Last offseason, it had 174.<\/p>\n As we learned Wednesday<\/a>, the Flyers open the 2026-27 campaign Wednesday, Sept. 30, when they welcome the Penguins to Xfinity Mobile Arena. It’ll be the earliest the Flyers have ever started the regular season.<\/p>\n To the delight of fans, the Flyers will be back in Philadelphia for Black Friday. Last season, they had a rare road game that day<\/a> because the Eagles were hosting the Bears in the afternoon.<\/p>\n Here’s a breakdown of the 2026-27 schedule, which was released Thursday.<\/p>\n \u2022 The Flyers open the season at home for the first time since 2022-23. Last season, they started with consecutive road games.<\/p>\n \u2022 The Flyers have 12 back-to-back sets, with none in March or April.<\/p>\n \u2022 The Flyers go nine days without a game from Feb. 4-12, a stretch that coincides with the All-Star break.<\/p>\n \u2022 The Flyers’ longest stretch of consecutive home games is five from Jan. 21-30.<\/p>\n \u2022 The Flyers’ longest stretch of consecutive road games is five and it happens twice: Nov. 5-14 and Dec. 27-Jan. 4.<\/p>\n \u2022 The Flyers face each Metropolitan Division team four times.<\/p>\n Aside from the season opener, here are some fun and notable matchups:<\/p>\n \u2022 Oct. 3 \u2014 The Flyers host the defending champion Hurricanes for the first time since last season’s playoff exit against Carolina, a loss that came in the same building.<\/p>\n \u2022 Oct. 24 \u2014 This home game in the afternoon provides the next edition of the Flyers-Ducks budding rivalry, which added more juice this offseason<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u2022 Nov. 15 \u2014 Connor McDavid’s annual trip to Philly with the Oilers is not a bad ticket.<\/p>\n \u2022 Nov. 27 \u2014 The always-popular Black Friday home matinee comes against the Canucks.<\/p>\n \u2022 Nov. 30 \u2014 Porter Martone and Gavin McKenna, two Calder Trophy candidates<\/a>, could square off for the first time when the Flyers visit the Maple Leafs.<\/p>\n \u2022 Dec. 21 \u2014 The Flyers hold their holiday spectacular matchup when they welcome the Blue Jackets.<\/p>\n \u2022 March 2 \u2014 The Flyers didn’t face Carter Hart last season when he visited with the Golden Knights<\/a>; maybe they’ll see him here for his next return?<\/p>\n \u2022 April 10 \u2014 Could the regular-season finale in Philly be the final game of Alex Ovechkin’s historic career?<\/p>\n Here is the Flyers’ full regular-season schedule<\/a>, with start times in Eastern. The preseason schedule can be found here<\/a>.<\/p>\n The broadcast schedule will be released at a later date.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Flyers are facing some new territory in 2026-27. Not only has the NHL shifted to an 84-game…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":246788,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[33784,69,71,70],"class_list":["post-246787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-flyers-news","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246787","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=246787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246787\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}