The Buffalo Sabres revealed their 2025-26 regular season schedule on Wednesday, with the club opening the 82-game schedule against the New York Rangers at Key Bank Center on Thursday, October 9 and will finish the campaign at home against the Dallas Stars on Wednesday, April 15.
The most notable game on the schedule will be on Tuesday, November 4, when former Sabre JJ Peterka and the Utah Mammoth visit KBC. The club’s schedule is loaded with home games in the first month of the season, with six of the first eight games in October in Buffalo, including the first of a home-and-home matchup with the Toronto Maple Leafs on Friday, October 24 and Saturday, October 25.
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Other highlight home games are: Saturday, October 18th against the two-time Stanley Cup champion Florida Panthers, Saturday, November 1st against NHL all-time leading goal scorer Alexander Ovechkin and the Washington Capitals, Monday, November 17th against Connor McDavid and the Edmonton Oilers.
The Sabres will have a long gap of 25 days between home games in February and early March due to the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milano-Cortina. The only home game in the calendar’s shortest month is scheduled for Thursday, February 5th, against the Pittsburgh Penguins. The next game will be on Tuesday, March 3rd, against the Vegas Golden Knights.
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