The 2025-26 Tampa Bay Lightning schedule starts on October 9th, 2025. There are 82 matches during the regular season for Tampa Bay. This season will be the first in more than a decade that we have a break for the Winter Olympics in the NHL schedule. The Lightning’ schedule is released, the printable version is updated for you to include a version to print to PDF.
2025-26 Tampa Bay Lightning Schedule
The 2025-26 Tampa Bay Lightning schedule starts on or around October 7th, 2025. The Lightning wrap up the schedule in mid-April before the NHL Playoffs begin. You can read more about the NHL schedule release for 2025-26 here.
***The 2025-26 NHL Schedules are released. You can get all of the team schedules in printable PDF here from the NHL release.
2025-26 Tampa Bay Lightning Regular Season Opponents
Here’s the listing of the NHL teams that Tampa Bay will see during the 2025-26 NHL regular season.
| Western Conference | |
| Pacific Division | Central Division |
| Anaheim Ducks | Chicago Blackhawks |
| Calgary Flames | Colorado Avalanche |
| Edmonton Oilers | Dallas Stars |
| Los Angeles Kings | Minnesota Wild |
| San Jose Sharks | Montreal Canadiens |
| Seattle Kraken | Nashville Predators |
| Utah Mammoth | New York Rangers |
| Vancouver Canucks | Ottawa Senators |
| Vegas Golden Knights | Saint Louis Blues |
| Winnipeg Jets | |
| Eastern Conference | |
| Atlantic Division | Metropolitan Division |
| Boston Bruins | Carolina Hurricanes |
| Buffalo Sabres | Columbus Blue Jackets |
| Detroit Red Wings | New Jersey Devils |
| Florida Panthers | New York Islanders |
| Tampa Bay Lightning | Philadelphia Flyers |
| Toronto Maple Leafs | Pittsburgh Penguins |
| Washington Capitals | |
Printable 2025-26 Tampa Bay Lightning Schedule
The printable 2025-26 Tampa Bay Lightning schedule is posted in image format for you below. You can also save or print the schedule to PDF format.
2025-26 NHL Playoff Schedule
Once the regular season begins, Lightning’ fans will want to check out the 2026 NHL Playoff schedule. We have that and you can look at the printable NHL Playoffs bracket in PDF to see how this postseason was setup with seeds, etc. We don’t expect to see any significant changes to how the league does the seeding and playoff schedule for 2026 compared to the 2025 postseason schedule.
