St. Louis, Mo. (KFMO) – The St. Louis Blues and National Hockey League (NHL) have released the 2025-26 regular season schedule. The Blues will open the season against the Minnesota Wild on October 9 at Enterprise Center.
The season starts with seven of 11 October games at home. There are 16 home games on Friday and Saturday nights; five of the ten Saturday night home games start at 6:00p.m.
Division rival Chicago comes to town October 15 and December 12. The Blues host the defending Stanley Cup Champion, Florida Panthers, on January 29; and the first rematch of the 2025 playoff series against the Winnipeg Jets will be played on December 17.
The season features four different four-game homestands. The final home game will be played on April 14 against the Pittsburgh Penguins, while the final game of the season will be two nights later at Utah.
For the second straight season there will be a two week pause in February. This year for the 2026 Winter Olympics, which will feature NHL players for the first time since 2014.
Overall, the Blues play 82 games (41 home, 41 away), 26 games are against Central Division opponents, 24 games against Pacific Division opponents, and 32 games against Eastern Conference Opponents.
Earlier this week, the Blues released the 2025 Preseason schedule that features home games against Chicago (Sep. 27), Dallas (Sep. 30) and Ottawa (Oct. 2), and road games at Dallas (Sep. 20), Columbus (Sep 21), and Chicago (Oct. 4).