Home cooking.
It’ll start early for the Edmonton Oilers, whose schedule was released Tuesday.
The Stanley Cup finalists will have four straight games at Rogers Place to kick off the 2024-2025 season. They’ll open up Oct. 9 against the Winnipeg Jets at Rogers Place. Then, they’ll play Chicago here Oct. 12, Calgary Oct. 13 and Philadelphia Oct. 15.
They don’t hit the road until going to Nashville to play newly signed Steven Stamkos and Jonathan Marchessault on Oct. 17, with a game in Dallas, a rematch of the Western Conference final, on Oct. 19.
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The Panthers make their only visit here Dec. 16 in a renewal of the Cup final.
Oct. 25: Sidney Crosby is here with the Penguins.
Nov. 6: The rival Vegas Golden Knights come to town.
Nov. 14: Stamkos and the Predators.
Dec. 19: Elias Lindholm, Nikita Zadorov and the Bruins.
Dec. 31: New Year’s Eve with the new Utah Hockey Club.
Jan. 21: Ovechkin and the Capitals.
Jan. 23: Bring on the second-round playoff opponents Canucks.
Feb. 1: Auston Matthews and the Maple Leafs.
Feb. 7: Hart trophy winner Nathan MacKinnon and the Colorado Avalanche.
March 6: The Montreal Canadiens make their only visit.
There are no Oiler games from Feb. 8-21, in part because of the Four Nations Face-off tournament with Canada, USA, Sweden and Finland.
The season ends April 16 in San Jose.
There are three Saturday home games at 2 p.m. (Dec. 14 vs Vegas; Dec. 21 vs San Jose and Jan. 25 vs Buffalo).
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