Every year, there are 82 games on the schedule (though that’s changing to 84 soon), but when looking through the calendar, it’s clear a few pop off the page. Here are the five most intriguing matchups on the Golden Knights’ schedule this year.
at Toronto Maple Leafs
January 23rd, 2026
Didn’t take much thought to select the first game on this list. Everyone remembers the return of Jack Eichel to Buffalo and this one could have a similar feel. The schedule makers did their best to mitigate the buildup of Mitch Marner’s return to Toronto with the two teams facing off just eight days earlier in Vegas and both games as the second night of a back-to-back for the Golden Knights. Nonetheless, the atmosphere in Toronto will be electric, both teams should be in the thick of the playoff chase, and Marner will have likely settled in with his linemates. It’s an out-of-conference road game as part of a back-to-back, so it’s a game Vegas will be expected to lose, but there may not be a game on the schedule the players will want to win more.
vs. Los Angeles Kings
October 8th, 2025
Not only is it Opening Night and the debut of Marner in a gold sweater, but it’s a division rival that will likely be challenging the Golden Knights for the top spot in the Pacific. The Golden Knights are elite on Opening Night historically, posting a 7-1-0 record all-time and the Kings have a game the night before in Los Angeles. So, this one could easily look like last year’s Opening Night when Vegas blew the doors off Colorado. It really is a significant game though to set the tone for what is a tricky month of October schedule-wise. Win it, and VGK should be off and running once again, lose it, and that three-game road trip starting the next night will become a bit more nervy.
vs Utah Mammoth
March 19th, 2026
I’ll admit it, I’m a sucker for a new logo and uniform. The branding on the new Utah Mammoth is pretty darn cool, and it’ll be neat to see them step on the ice in Vegas wearing the new gear for the first time. Plus, Utah spent a lot of money trying to improve their team and could easily be a playoff contender this season. The game falls a few games on the other side of the Trade Deadline too, so don’t be surprised if each roster looks a bit different then than it does right now.
vs Nashville Predators
December 31st, 2025
The Predators were the winners of free agency in 2024. However, it did not translate on the ice at all as they were a trainwreck basically from start to finish. However, the roster still has a lot of great players, and the Golden Knights’ Conn Smythe winner is still looking for some revenge on his old team. It’s a New Year’s Eve afternoon game too, which is always a party in Vegas.
at Florida Panthers
October 25th, 2025
There’s no better measuring stick than facing the back-to-back defending champions in their home building early in the season. The Panthers returned just about everyone so they should be a well-oiled machine. The Golden Knights have a four-day break leading into this game, which could allow them to make some tweaks and/or build off what has been going right or wrong in the first seven games. Right now, everyone considers the Golden Knights to be a clear Cup contender, if they want to continue keeping that moniker, they’ll need a good performance in Sunrise.
NAM
The NHL media will make a lot out of Marner going back to TOR. So that game will be nationally broadcasted and in the spotlight. So the fact that it just so happens to be on a back to back etc I call bullshit. No different than the extremely biased national broadcast announcers etc. Fucking Canadians.
So the 3rd most important game is to see Utah’s new jersey 5+ months into the season. Wow! Can’t wait. Might as well make that pride pedo gay sex night, on top of it. I mean, much more meaningful than a Roy or Hague return game. LOL
Emmanuel
Well said!
ThG
politics in NHL Bettman ? Say it isn’t so.
Don Moore
You said gay and Pedo. Is Donald Trump going with Judas the closet homo Vance
ThG
Remember when the Sharks were somebodies? Left off the erlers.
DruBlu
Agreed. The Oil are always a big one. And now that we both have a superstar duo, should be interesting.
Vic
Yeah, they were pretty good for a while. The rebuild has been painful, and they overpaid many times. They do have some excellent young players, but it will take a few more years (maybe) for them to be a problem for the west.
Emmanuel
NHL listed depth chart:
Pavel Dorofeyev — Jack Eichel — Mitch Marner
Ivan Barbashev — Tomas Hertl — Mark Stone
Brandon Saad — William Karlsson — Reilly Smith
Brett Howden — Colton Sissons — Keegan Kolesar
Shea Theodore — Brayden McNabb
Noah Hanifin — Zach Whitecloud
Jeremy Lauzon — Kaedan Korczak
Adin Hill
Akira Schmid
Emmanuel
Interesting take from NHL.com
Called a depth chart not projected lines.
Doro @ 1LW?
Smith @ RW?
Saad over Howden?
JB
I like Pavel on that first line. Could score 50 goals with those two feeding him!
ThG
I miss seeing Petro on D
Emmanuel
Yup, & his loss is being underplayed by everyone inc the media. irreplaceable.
Larry
Nope not buying it. Simply cannot have Hertl and Stone on same line, would be an invitation to be skated circles around as they continue to age and if it’s possible get any slower.
I think the Hertl line with Pavel and Saad is still our biggest question mark heading into the season.
I really like the defensive cerebral line of Karlsson Smith and Stone, and I think they will create enough offense as well to make it a solid 2 way line.
VGK fan
I agree with you Larry. I thought all 3 points were valid and liked what you called the ‘cerebral ‘ line as it does fit them.
Donald J Trump
bha ha ha ha
The White House thinks the Left’s reaction to the Sydney Sweeney American Eagle jeans ad is “moronic,” as well as further proof as to why President Trump won the election.
Trump’s communications manager Steven Cheung called out the ongoing outrage surrounding the new campaign showing Sweeney touting herself for having great jeans – a play on the actress’ genes. Cheung posted on X that voters were “tired of this bulls–t” after some online called the ad tone-deaf, saying it celebrates Sweeney’s whiteness and thinness.
“Cancel culture run amok,” Cheung wrote. “This warped, moronic and dense liberal thinking is a big reason why Americans voted the way they did in 2024. They’re tired of this bulls–t.”
Emmanuel
She goes to 11.
DruBlu
That’s hilarious how ignorant you are of reality. Cancel culture? While your moron of a president literally makes a business cancel a show because His thin-skin-pussy-snowflake-petulant-toddler Majesty can’t take criticism like every president before him has. Dishes it out all day and night, though. Always plays the victim. Ha! What an absolute textbook authoritarian turd! And you’re his cult member, with your lips firmly stapled around his swollen sphincter hanging on every turd- I mean, word. Believe every lie. Poor me, says Trump. Every day. Who talks like that? “Everything I do is the greatest in the history of the universe! Everything my detractors do is the worst in the history of the universe!” Nobody but an insecure spoiled baby talks like that. Oh, and dictators. And by the way, he did NOT receive the majority of the voters. More people voted against him than for him. Learn some facts. Look somewhere besides far right opinion sources.
knights fan in minny
Go kiss Kamala’s ass boy
TS
Dru, a HUGE dose of Trump reality!! One thing we know: He is EXACTLY what he appears to be!!
knights fan in minny
He appears to be a president who gets things done not a mush Mush head Who had to take naps everyday And who could not be bothered after 8:00 PM I call that 4 years of fraud
TS
FRAUD?? Like ALL of TRUMP’S bank fraud, Irs fraud, business fraud??.THAT Fraud?? Come on, man, WHO is the career fraudster?
JB
Speak the truth Dru! Thank you
Donald J Trump
I have been around a long time before Trump , and your TDS , came along. Your post is full of lies. Trump got 77 million votes, Kamela got less than 50 million if you exclude the illegals voting in LA and CA. Your ilk is full of hate , evil, and mis direction !
JB
IF you exclude the illegals voting? You people just can’t ever face the facts and truth of any issue. Anything you do t want to see is a fraud, fake, etc…. America is waking up to this attempt to make a dictator. Is that really what you hope for? The typ country you want to live in. Climb out of the rabbit hole and bring some common sense back into this country!
ThG
I guess you missed the ten million illegals Biden let in last four years. Typical lefty, falling way behind on the news cycle. The dictator got booted last November, putz.
TS
You gotta be on something, Fraud!! What the hell is IN those Milkshakes you devour??.Try TRUTH SYRUM, Traitor!!
ThG
Look it is TS clone SYBIL, the one with multiple personalities projecting. You are not fooling anyone. Creep.
Pistol Pete
OT:
DruBlu I try to not stray off hockey, though recently I did in a big way because I studied the Russia Investigation and take issue with this dumbass, hypocritical, treasonous Gabbard/Ratcliffe/Patel-led assault on it, but yours is easily the most accurate spot-on anti-Trump post we have ever seen here. You really nailed it!
ThG
Wow Disturbed lefties exposed. DJT is onto something.
Sydney Sweeney Triggered the Woke Mob with One Simple Ad That Left Hollywood’s Thought Police Scrambling.
The woke mob has found their latest target.
Sydney Sweeney committed the unforgivable sin of being beautiful and successful without apologizing for it.
And Sydney Sweeney triggered the woke mob with one simple ad that left Hollywood’s thought police scrambling.
Sydney Sweeney’s “Great Genes” Ad Sends Woke Critics Into Full Meltdown
The 27-year-old Euphoria star just dropped a collaboration with American Eagle that has left-wing critics reaching for their smelling salts.
The campaign, titled “Sydney Sweeney Has Great Jeans,” features a clever play on words that apparently broke the brains of woke activists across social media.
In one promo video, Sweeney walks up to an American Eagle billboard featuring her image with the tagline “Sydney Sweeney Has Great Genes.”¹
She casually crosses out “Genes” and replaces it with “Jeans” before walking away with the confidence that drives leftists absolutely insane.
That’s it. That’s the “controversial” content that has the woke mob idiots, you know who you are, offended losing what little is of left of their minds.
TS
At it yet again, numb nuts??. Do.you ever sleep??
ThG
look out
https://x.com/idonthaveshoeso/status/1950572109891330553/photo/1
ThG
Kamela releases new media “How I lost the election”?? “Clown Car show in 107 days or less”. “I left my heels back in San Fransicko”??
https://norton.1news.io/news/f26d57e13b43441c6ab58790db8a7ad8?utm_source=norton
knights fan in minny
Because Giggles was a moron with no clue what the American people wanted
TS
You’re a real SHITHEAD. PROUD??? JUST LIKE TRAITOR TRUMP…
knights fan in minny
You are a real shithead Angry nut job
ThG
Breaking burn bags expose dirty tricks obama clan/ cccb = clinton clapper comey brennan gang of five treason.
From Senator Grassley.
Foreign sources indicating the FBI and the Obama administration would play a role in spreading the salacious Trump–Russia narrative — before the bureau ever launched its probe — were allegedly tied to George Soros’ Open Society Foundation, according to an explosive document declassified Thursday morning.
The appendix to former Special Counsel John Durham’s report released by the Senate Judiciary Committee sheds stunning light on what Chairman Chuck Grassley describes as “one of the biggest political scandals and cover-ups in American history.”
The appendix reveals that the foreign sources were allegedly tied to George Soros’ Open Society Foundations.
The appendix said that Russian government actors in 2016 reportedly hacked emails from the Open Society Foundations, formerly known as the Soros Foundation. (what’s a Russian Gov Actor?).
Bombshell email initiations.
“The media analysis on the DNC hacking appears solid…. Julie (Clinton Campaign Advisor) says it will be a long-term affair to demonize Putin and Trump. Now it is good for a post-convention bounce,”
“This should distract people from her (Hillary) own missing email (scandal), especially if the affair goes to the Olympic level”
“”The point is making the Russian play a U.S. domestic issue. Say something like a critical infrastructure threat for the election to feel manic (wow)”
ThG
Grassley said that “history will show that the Obama and Biden administration’s law enforcement and intelligence agencies were weaponized against President Trump.”
“This political weaponization has caused critical damage to our institutions and is one of the biggest political scandals and cover-ups in American history,” Grassley said. “The new Trump administration has a tremendous responsibility to the American people to fix the damage done and do so with maximum speed and transparency.”
TS
STFU, NUMB NUTS!! TAKE IT TO THE DUMP WHERE IT BELONGS!!
knights fan in minny
That’s where they took four years of fraud Mushhead Joe Biden the Little Nap King who couldn’t get through a hard day’s work