ARLINGTON, Va. \u2013 The Washington Capitals, in conjunction with the National Hockey League, today announced the club\u2019s home opener for the 2026-27 season, presented by Vanda Pharmaceuticals. The Capitals will host the Pittsburgh Penguins on Wednesday, Oct. 7, at 7:30 p.m. at Capital One Arena.<\/p>\n
The Capitals\u2019 complete 2026-27 regular-season schedule, presented by Ticketmaster, will be announced on Thursday, July 16.<\/p>\n
It marks the second time in the last four seasons that the Capitals will host the Penguins for their home opener and the sixth time overall. Washington\u2019s 2026-27 home opener can also mark the 101st all-time head-to-head meeting (including playoffs) between Alex Ovechkin and Sidney Crosby. Last season, the Capitals won the season series against the Penguins 2-1-0, sweeping a home-and-home, back-to-back set with Pittsburgh on April 11-12. Washington had a 25-11-5 (.671 point percentage) home record in 2025-26, the sixth-highest home point percentage in the NHL.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ARLINGTON, Va. \u2013 The Washington Capitals, in conjunction with the National Hockey League, today announced the club\u2019s home…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":764661,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-764660","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\/764660","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=764660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764660\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/764661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=764660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=764660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=764660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}