Red Wings Announce 2026-27 Season Schedule

As part of a league-wide rollout, the Detroit Red Wings announced their schedule for the 2026-27 regular season on Thursday.

Class is in session. 👨‍🏫

Full schedule: https://t.co/iZ2Zt5XR2T
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— Detroit Red Wings (@DetroitRedWings) July 16, 2026

It is the first schedule in the new 84-game format. The Red Wings last played 84-game seasons in 1992-93 and 1993-94, when two neutral-site games were included in the calendar.

The Red Wings open their campaign on October 2, hosting the New York Rangers, with seven of their first eight games played at home.

Their traditional New Years Eve game has been bumped to the afternoon, a 2:00 PM start against the Carolina Hurricanes.

A new addition to the calendar is the November 18 home game against the Boston Bruins, which the team is calling the Centennial Celebration. That date will mark 100 years since the first game of the Detroit Cougars, a 2-0 loss to the Bruins at Border Cities Arena in Windsor.

Throughout the season, the Red Wings will play on back-to-back nights 12 times. Their only home-and-home of the season is against the Washington Capitals in March.

I’m looking at that New Years Eve game and wondering a bit. The Red Wings almost always play at home on New Years Eve night. Why move that game to the afternoon unless there’s an arena conflict?

The Great Lakes Invitational is in Grand Rapids now. The Detroit Pistons’ schedule hasn’t been released yet but it would be a quick turnaround from hockey to basketball after a 2:00 PM start. I wonder if the Red Wings are giving PWHL Detroit the evening game that day. We know there are going to be NHL/PWHL back-to-backs this season. Some of the weekend afternoon games can be explained away as part of the national TV broadcast so we don’t know for sure that the Wings took the early game with PWHL Detroit playing at night on those days. But New Years Eve is a bit different, so it sticks out to me.