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The Montreal Canadiens will open their season as they usually do, against Toronto in early October, and finish the season at Philadelphia on April 14.
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The National Hockey League released its full schedule on Wednesday, and in the tradition of National Football League teams, the Canadiens published a video they thought was funny to go along with it.
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The Canadiens’ video shows general manager Kent Hughes and executive vice-president Jeff Gorton pointing fingers at the other for failing to create a fun video on time, including ideas such as having Juraj Slafkovsky read out all 82 games in ASMR style, or a Minecraft-style video, or an infinite zoom. Realizing they don’t have a video, Gorton says “this is an emergency” prompting Canadiens emergency backup goaltender Patrick Chèvrefils, a Montreal cop, to introduce the schedule and sit while it scrolls on screen.
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The season begins Oct. 8 in Toronto, with the home opener Tuesday, Oct. 14 vs. the Seattle Kraken. The big road trips are Oct. 22-28 in the northwest, Nov. 26-29 in Utah, Vegas and Colorado, March 3-7 in California, March 28 to April 4 in the eastern U.S., and the annual holiday road trip from Dec. 21 to Jan. 4.
The schedule also includes a break in February for the Winter Olympics in Milano Cortina, Italy, where NHL players will be playing for their countries. This means there will not be the usual Super Bowl weekend matinée games at the Bell Centre. All 41 Bell Centre games will start at 7 p.m. or 7:30 p.m.
The Canadiens will play Atlantic Division opponents four times each, except for Florida and Detroit (three times each), Metropolitan Division teams three times each, and Western Conference teams twice each.
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Broadcast details will be announced later this summer, but national games, including Saturday and Wednesday evening games, will be broadcast by Sportsnet, some Monday games by Amazon Prime Video, and the rest by TSN2.Canadiens 2025-26 season schedule
Date Time (ET) Opponent
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Wednesday, Oct. 8 7 p.m. @ Toronto
Thursday, Oct. 9 7 p.m. @ Detroit
Saturday, Oct. 11 7 p.m. @ Chicago
Tuesday, Oct. 14 7 p.m. Seattle
Thursday, Oct. 16 7 p.m. Nashville
Saturday, Oct. 18 7 p.m. N.Y. Rangers
Monday, Oct. 20 7:30 p.m. Buffalo
Wednesday, Oct. 22 8:30 p.m. @ Calgary
Thursday, Oct. 23 9 p.m. @ Edmonton
Saturday, Oct. 25 7 p.m. @ Vancouver
Tuesday, Oct. 28 10:30 p.m. @ Seattle
Saturday, Nov. 1 7 p.m. Ottawa
Tuesday, Nov. 4 7 p.m. Philadelphia
Thursday, Nov. 6 7 p.m. @ New Jersey
Saturday, Nov. 8 7 p.m. Utah
Tuesday, Nov. 11 7 p.m. Los Angeles
Thursday, Nov. 13 7 p.m. Dallas
Saturday, Nov. 15 7 p.m. Boston
Monday, Nov. 17 7:30 p.m. @ Columbus
Thursday, Nov. 20 7 p.m. Washington
Saturday, Nov. 22 7 p.m. Toronto
Wednesday, Nov. 26 9:30 p.m. @ Utah
Friday, Nov. 28 4 p.m. @ Vegas
Saturday, Nov. 29 3 p.m. @ Colorado
Tuesday, Dec. 2 7 p.m. Ottawa
Wednesday, Dec. 3 7:30 p.m. Winnipeg
Saturday, Dec. 6 7 p.m. @ Toronto
Sunday, Dec. 7 7 p.m. St. Louis
Tuesday, Dec. 9 7 p.m. Tampa Bay
Thursday, Dec. 11 7 p.m. @ Pittsburgh
Saturday, Dec. 13 7 p.m. @ N.Y. Rangers
Sunday, Dec. 14 7 p.m. Edmonton
Tuesday, Dec. 16 7 p.m. Philadelphia
Thursday, Dec. 18 7 p.m. Chicago
Saturday, Dec. 20 7 p.m. Pittsburgh
Sunday, Dec. 21 7 p.m. @ Pittsburgh
Tuesday, Dec. 23 7 p.m. @ Boston
Sunday, Dec. 28 5 p.m. @ Tampa Bay
Tuesday, Dec. 30 7 p.m. @ Florida
Thursday, Jan. 1 7 p.m. @ Carolina
Saturday, Jan. 3 4 p.m. @ St. Louis
Sunday, Jan. 4 2 p.m. @ Dallas
Wednesday, Jan. 7 7:30 p.m. Calgary
Thursday, Jan. 8 7 p.m. Florida
Saturday, Jan. 10 7 p.m. Detroit
Monday, Jan. 12 7:30 p.m. Vancouver
Tuesday, Jan. 13 7 p.m. @ Washington
Thursday, Jan. 15 7 p.m. @ Buffalo
Saturday, Jan. 17 7 p.m. @ Ottawa
Tuesday, Jan. 20 7 p.m. Minnesota
Thursday, Jan. 22 7 p.m. Buffalo
Saturday, Jan. 24 7 p.m. @ Boston
Tuesday, Jan. 27 7 p.m. Vegas
Thursday, Jan. 29 7 p.m. Colorado
Saturday, Jan. 31 7 p.m. @ Buffalo
Monday, Feb. 2 7:30 p.m. @ Minnesota
Wednesday, Feb. 4 7 p.m. @ Winnipeg
Thursday, Feb. 26 7 p.m. N.Y. Islanders
Saturday, Feb. 28 7 p.m. Washington
Tuesday, March 3 10 p.m. @ San Jose
Friday, March 6 9 p.m. @ Anaheim
Saturday, March 7 7 p.m. @ Los Angeles
Tuesday, March 10 7 p.m. Toronto
Wednesday, March 11 7:30 p.m. @ Ottawa
Saturday, March 14 7 p.m. San Jose
Sunday, March 15 7 p.m. Anaheim
Tuesday, March 17 7 p.m. Boston
Thursday, March 19 7 p.m. @ Detroit
Saturday, March 21 7 p.m. N.Y. Islanders
Tuesday, March 24 7 p.m. Carolina
Thursday, March 26 7 p.m. Columbus
Saturday, March 28 7 p.m. @ Nashville
Sunday, March 29 5 p.m. @ Carolina
Tuesday, March 31 7 p.m. @ Tampa Bay
Thursday, April 2 7 p.m. @ N.Y. Rangers
Saturday, April 4 7 p.m. @ New Jersey
Sunday, April 5 7 p.m. New Jersey
Tuesday, April 7 7 p.m. Florida
Thursday, April 9 7 p.m. Tampa Bay
Saturday, April 11 7 p.m. Columbus
Sunday, April 12 6 p.m. @ N.Y. Islanders
Tuesday, April 14 7 p.m. @ Philadelphia
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