By Pittsburgh Penguins
The Pittsburgh Penguins will open up the 2022-23 regular season with two-straight games at PPG Paints Arena, beginning with the team's home opener against the Arizona Coyotes on October 13 at 7:00 PM
The Penguins play three of their first four games of the season on home ice before they conclude the opening month of the season with their season-long, five-game road trip to Columbus (Oct. 22), Edmonton (Oct. 24), Calgary (Oct. 25), Vancouver (Oct. 28) and Seattle (Oct. 29).
To view the complete 2022-23 schedule, click
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. Broadcast information will be released at a later date.
Pittsburgh's schedule includes two season-long five-game homestands occurring from Nov. 26-Dec. 6, which includes matchups against Toronto (Nov. 26), Carolina (Nov. 29), Vegas (Dec. 1), St. Louis (Dec. 3) and Columbus (Dec. 6), as well as from Mar. 7-14 against Columbus (Mar. 7), NY Islanders (Mar. 9), Philadelphia (Mar. 11), NY Rangers (Mar. 12) and Montreal (Mar. 14).
Beginning on Oct. 15 with a matchup against the Eastern Conference champion Tampa Bay Lightning at 7:00 PM, the Penguins play 16 weekend home games on either a Friday night (3), Saturday (10) or Sunday (3), accounting for 39% of all home games.
Season ticket information for the Penguins' 2022-23 campaign can be found
here
.
Pittsburgh's schedule features some noteworthy home games that fans will want to circle on their calendar:
Fans can also highlight January 2 on their calendar when the Penguins will skate outdoors for the sixth time in franchise history when they face the Boston Bruins at Fenway Park in the 2023 Discover Winter Classic. Puck drop for the 15thanniversary of the NHL's Winter Classic is set for 2:00 PM.
The Penguins' schedule has 15 sets of back-to-back games, beginning Oct. 24-25 in Edmonton and Calgary, respectively. Last season, Pittsburgh went 13-5-4 in back-to-back situations.
Pittsburgh will face each Metropolitan Division opponent four times (two home/two road), each Western Conference opponent twice (one home/one road), and each Atlantic Division opponent three times. The lone exceptions in the Metropolitan Division is that Pittsburgh only travels to Philadelphia once, and only hosts Washington once. Half of the Atlantic Division foes visit Pittsburgh twice (Boston, Ottawa, Tampa Bay and Toronto), while half host the Penguins twice (Buffalo, Detroit, Florida and Montreal).
