The NHL released its 1,312-game, 2025-26 regular-season schedule on Wednesday. The season starts on Oct. 7 with a nationally televised tripleheader on ESPN in the United States and Sportsnet and TVA Sports in Canada.

The last four seasons have cast the Kings in the role of Sisyphus, rolling their heavy stone up an 82-game hill, only to see it sent tumbling back down by the Edmonton Oilers in a quartet of consecutive first-round defeats.

The NHL has released the full 2025-26 schedule. It is the final 82-game season before the new collective bargaining agreement kicks in and increases to 84.