Games on: Oilers start 2025-26 NHL campaign at home vs. Flames

Calgary Flames' MacKenzie Weegar (52) chases Edmonton Oilers' Connor McDavid (97) during second period NHL action in Edmonton, Sunday, Oct. 13, 2024.

A fiery, familiar foe will visit Edmonton’s Rogers Place in October to help the hometown Oilers drop the puck on the National Hockey League regular season.

The Oilers will face off with their provincial rivals, the Calgary Flames, in a 8 p.m. start on Wednesday, Oct. 8, to begin the 2025-26 campaign.

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It will be the first of four meetings between the Pacific Division adversaries, two in each city. The Flames will also visit Edmonton on Dec. 23.

The Oilers follow their season-opener with a Saturday night home date against another Western Canadian rival, the Vancouver Canucks, on Oct. 11 before they begin a five-game eastern road trip on Oct. 14 in New York against the Rangers.

Their first rematch of June’s Stanley Cup Final against the Florida Panthers will come at the end of a seven-game road swing on Nov. 22. Edmonton will host Florida on March 19.

Edmonton’s regular-season slate ends April 16 with their second of two home games against the Canucks.

The league’s schedule features a nearly three-week pause in February for the Winter Olympics in Milan, Italy.

Other highlights on the Oilers’ 2025-26 schedule:

• in their annual fan part-takeovers of Rogers Place, the Montreal Canadiens will visit Oct. 23 while the Toronto Maple Leafs come to Edmonton on Feb. 3;
• the Boston Bruins will help the Oilers and their fans say goodbye to 2025 on New Year’s Eve;
• besides facing the Flames and the Bruins at home during the two-week school holiday break over Christmas, the Oilers will also host Vegas Golden Knights (Dec. 21) and the Philadelphia Flyers (Jan. 3);
• the Oilers first home game following the Olympic break is March 3 against the Ottawa Senators. It follows a three-game road trip through California from Feb. 25-28;
• Edmonton’s longest homestand of the season comes in late January, starting Jan. 18 against the St. Louis Blues and ending Feb. 3 against the Maple Leafs. The Oilers will also face the New Jersey Devils (Jan. 20), the Pittsburgh Penguins (Jan. 22), the Washington Capitals (Jan. 24), the Anaheim Ducks (Jan. 26), the San Jose Sharks (Jan. 29) and the Minnesota Wild (Jan. 31) in that time.

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