NHL Journey Mileage Totals for All 32 Groups After 2025-26 Schedule Launch

The Edmonton Oilers and the Pittsburgh Penguins will rack up essentially the most mileage within the NHL whereas touring through the 2025-26 season, in accordance with Bookies.com’s Bill Speros.

Speros’ report follows the NHL’s July 16 release of the total schedule for the upcoming marketing campaign, which can characteristic two NHL Global Series video games between the Penguins and Nashville Predators in Stockholm, Sweden this November.

Despite the truth that the Oilers are staying in North America subsequent season, Connor McDavid’s crew is about to guide the league in miles traveled partially due to seven away video games scheduled for an 11-day span between Nov. 12 and Nov. 22.

This stretch has the Oilers set to go to Philadelphia, Columbus, Carolina, Buffalo, Washington D.C. and Tampa earlier than concluding the span with a Stanley Cup Final rematch towards the Florida Panthers in Sunrise.

The Oilers aren’t any strangers to journey after additionally racking up 50,000 miles through the 2024-25 season, per Thomas Nestico of TJ Stats.

The Penguins, in the meantime, rank second in journey mileage not solely due to the crew’s November journey to Stockholm but in addition as a result of the franchise is embarking on an NHL-high 22 separate street journeys this season, per Speros.

The Penguins are seeing a major enhance in journey time after rating thirty second with 31,700 miles traveled final season, per TJ Stats.

The New York Islanders are the one crew touring fewer than 30,000 miles this season, which suggests the franchise will report simply over half of the Oilers’ mileage.

That’s partially due to the Islanders’ proximity to a number of different franchises with division members just like the New York Rangers, New Jersey Devils and Philadelphia Flyers close by. The franchise may even maintain a considerable amount of its whole journey throughout two seven-game road trips in November and January.

Some NHLers will likely be embarking on much more journey than these crew totals when the league breaks from Feb. 5 to Feb. 25 to permit gamers to compete within the 2026 Milano Cortina Olympics.

The 2025-26 NHL season will open when the Panthers elevate their second straight Stanley Cup banner earlier than taking over Connor Bedard and the Chicago Blackhawks on Tuesday, Oct. 7.