{"id":114278,"date":"2025-08-27T17:48:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T17:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/114278\/"},"modified":"2025-08-27T17:48:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T17:48:07","slug":"the-washington-capitals-will-be-on-national-tv-a-league-high-18-times-this-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/114278\/","title":{"rendered":"The Washington Capitals will be on national TV a league-high 18 times this season"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\ud83d\udcf8: Alan Dobbins\/RMNB\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

Hockey fans across the country will get plenty of chances to watch the Washington Capitals this season.<\/p>\n

The NHL released its 2025-26 national broadcast schedule for the United States on Wednesday, and the Capitals top the list with 18 games on on the calendar. Washington will start its season on TNT, featuring as the network\u2019s first game of the campaign against the Boston Bruins on October 8 at 7:30 pm.<\/p>\n

Eight Capitals games will air on TNT, four will air on ESPN, three will air on ABC, and three will air on ESPN+ and Hulu.<\/p>\n

Washington Capitals 2025-26 national TV broadcast schedule<\/p>\n

Date
\nOpponent
\nLocation
\nTime
\nNetwork<\/p>\n

Wednesday, Oct. 8
\nBoston Bruins
\nCapital One Arena
\n7:30 pm
\nTNT<\/p>\n

Tuesday, Oct. 14
\nTampa Bay Lightning
\nCapital One Arena
\n7 pm
\nESPN<\/p>\n

Tuesday, Oct. 28
\nDallas Stars
\nAmerican Airlines Center
\n8:30 pm
\nESPN<\/p>\n

Wednesday, Nov. 5
\nSt. Louis Blues
\nCapital One Arena
\n7:30 pm
\nTNT<\/p>\n

Thursday, Nov. 6
\nPittsburgh Penguins
\nPPG Paints Arena
\n7:30 pm
\nESPN+\/Hulu<\/p>\n

Wednesday. Nov. 19
\nEdmonton Oilers
\nCapital One Arena
\n7 pm
\nTNT<\/p>\n

Tuesday, Jan. 7
\nDallas Stars
\nCapital One Arena
\n7 pm
\nTNT<\/p>\n

Sunday, Jan. 19
\nColorado Avalanche
\nBall Arena
\n4 pm
\nTNT<\/p>\n

Wednesday, Jan. 29
\nDetroit Red Wings
\nLittle Caesars Arena
\n7:30 pm
\nESPN+\/Hulu<\/p>\n

Friday, March 7
\nBoston Bruins
\nTD Garden
\n12:30 pm
\nABC<\/p>\n

Tuesday, March 11
\nPhiladelphia Flyers
\nXfinity Mobile Arena
\n7:30 pm
\nTNT<\/p>\n

Friday, March 14
\nBoston Bruins
\nCapital One Arena
\n3 pm
\nABC<\/p>\n

Wednesday, April 2
\nNew Jersey Devils
\nPrudential Center
\n7:30 pm
\nESPN+\/Hulu<\/p>\n

Saturday, April 5
\nNew York Rangers
\nMadison Square Garden
\n7 pm
\nESPN<\/p>\n

Tuesday, April 8
\nToronto Maple Leafs
\nScotiabank Arena
\n7:30 pm
\nTNT<\/p>\n

Friday, April 11
\nPittsburgh Penguins
\nPPG Paints Arena
\n3 pm
\nABC<\/p>\n

Saturday, April 12
\nPittsburgh Penguins
\nCapital One Arena
\n3 pm
\nTNT<\/p>\n

Monday, April 14
\nColumbus Blue Jackets
\nNationwide Arena
\n7 pm.
\nESPN<\/p>\n

Alongside the national broadcast schedule, the NHL also announced start time changes for four Capitals games<\/a>. Monumental Sports Network is set to release details for the Capitals\u2019 local broadcasts at a later time.<\/p>\n

The ESPN family of networks (including ESPN, ABC, ESPN+, and Hulu) will broadcast 100 regular-season games the NHL, while TNT will show 72 contests \u2014 a 10-game increase from 2024-25.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\ud83d\udcf8: Alan Dobbins\/RMNB Hockey fans across the country will get plenty of chances to watch the Washington Capitals…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":114279,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-114278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114278\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}