Golden Knights Open 56-Game Pandemic Season Jan. 14 When Anaheim Ducks Visit T-Mobile Arena

By Alan Snel of LVSportsBiz.com

It’s the NHL season that will be like none other and it begins for the Vegas Golden Knights Jan. 14 when the Anaheim Ducks visit T-Mobile arena.

The 56-game regular season schedule lasts from mid-January to May, with two months of postseason playoffs to mid-July.

To cope with the COVID-19 pandemic, the schedule consists of two-game serieses between teams in the same division. There will be four divisions. including a North Division of the seven Canadian teams.

Here’s the Vegas Golden Knights schedule.

 

No fans will attend games at most arenas at the start: “The NHL and NHLPA determined that the ongoing closure of the U.S.-Canada border required realignment and the League and the Players also sought to minimize team travel as much as possible by shifting to exclusively intradivisional play. It is the current plan to play games in the home arenas of participating teams while understanding that most arenas will not, at least in the initial part of the season, be able to host fans,” according to NHL.

The Golden Knights will play seven teams in their eight-team west division: Ducks, Kings, Blues, Wild, Coyotes, Sharks and Avalanche.

 

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Alan Snel

Alan Snel brings decades of sports-business reporting experience to LVSportsBiz.com. Snel covered the business side of sports for the South Florida (Fort Lauderdale) Sun-Sentinel, the Tampa Tribune and Las Vegas Review-Journal. As a city hall beat reporter, Snel also covered stadium deals in Denver and Seattle. In 2000, Snel launched a sport-business website for FoxSports.com called FoxSportsBiz.com. After reporting sports-business for the RJ, Snel wrote hard-hitting stories on the Raiders stadium for the Desert Companion magazine in Las Vegas and The Nevada Independent. Snel is also one of the top bicycle advocates in the country.