# 2026-27 NHL Schedule Edges for Fantasy

The page at /fantasy/schedule/ breaks the 84-game 2026-27 NHL schedule into the parts that change fantasy lineups: off-nights, back-to-backs, homestands, road trips, the busiest seven-day stretch, and games in week one.

An off-night is a game on Monday, Wednesday, Friday or Sunday, the league's light nights, when fewer clubs play and a streaming slot is cheapest. Colorado draws 40 of them out of 84, the most in the league. New York Rangers take 39; San Jose, Utah and Washington take 38 each. Nashville sits last with 20, followed by Tampa Bay at 23 and New Jersey and St. Louis at 25.

Back-to-backs cut the other way, mostly at goalie. Pittsburgh carries 15 and Boston, Buffalo, Florida and Ottawa carry 14 each. Calgary and Vegas carry only eight, and Winnipeg nine.

The page also prints a full-season streaming matrix: all 32 clubs by all 28 fantasy weeks, Monday to Sunday, week 1 starting on the Monday of opening week and week 28 ending on the Sunday of the final week. The high and low cell in each week is flagged, the grid filters by month, and the cells can be flipped to off-night games only. Week one and the final week are partial by construction. Ottawa plays one game in week one; the Rangers and Vancouver play four.

Two clubs can be compared week by week from the same grid, and weeks 22 to 26 (February 22 through March 28, 2027) carry a fantasy playoffs window label. That label is the desk's, not a league rule: playoff weeks are a league setting the schedule cannot see. In those five weeks Chicago, Seattle, Toronto and Washington play the most at 18 games, and New Jersey and Utah the fewest at 14.

February is a scheduling artefact, not a form signal. The league takes a mid-season break from February 4 through February 7, 2027, clubs add their own bye stretches, and every team's monthly game count drops.

Source: NHL public web API, club-schedule-season for 20262027, regular season only. Caveats from the builder are printed on the page.

Related: /fantasy/ for the ranked board, /fantasy/mock-draft/, /fantasy/rookies/, /fantasy/busts/.