Flames announce eight game pre-season schedule for 2025-26

On Monday afternoon, the Calgary Flames announced their pre-season schedule for the 2025-26 campaign.

The schedule features eight exhibition games, perhaps for the final time given the expectation that the new collective bargaining agreement will see the pre-season cut down to four games as the regular season is boosted up to 84 games.

As has become standard in recent years, the Flames will play a pair of games – one home, one away – against each of the Edmonton Oilers, Seattle Kraken, Vancouver Canucks and Winnipeg Jets.

The schedule begins with a set of split squad games against the Edmonton Oilers on Sun., Sept. 21: with Flames at Oilers at Rogers Place, and Oilers at Flames at the Saddledome.

Then there’s a back-to-back set, with the Flames hosting Seattle on Tues., Sept. 23 at the ‘Dome before heading west to visit the Vancouver Canucks on Wed., Sept. 24 in Abbotsford, home of the Calder Cup champions.

The road swing continues, with a trip to Winnipeg on Sat., Sept. 27 and a visit to Seattle on Mon., Sept. 29. The pre-season concludes with a pair of home dates, with the Flames hosting Vancouver on Wed., Oct. 1 and Winnipeg on Fri., Oct. 3.

(We’ll have radio, broadcasting and streaming information for the exhibition games as they become available, likely immediately before the pre-season begins.)

Generally-speaking, you’ll see veteran-laden Flames rosters for pretty much all pre-season home dates. The road rosters are usually fairly youthful when camp begins and will become more and more NHL-heavy as the exhibition calendar goes along. If nothing else, you get a chance to see some of the Flames organization’s younger players tried out in game situations alongside some of their established veterans.

Based on the dates of these games, you can reasonably expect rookie training camp to begin around Sept. 11 and main training camp to begin around Sept. 18. If we’re using last season’s schedule as a gauge, you can probably expect the roster deadline day to be Mon., Oct. 6 and the season to begin Tues., Oct. 7. (The 2025-26 regular season schedule is expected to be released in mid-July.)