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The Penguins and the defending Stanley Cup champions will play a back-to-back home-and-home series on Tuesday Jan. 5 in Pittsburgh and Wednesday Jan. 6 in Chicago.
The NHL’s All-Star break is Thursday Jan. 28 through Monday Feb. 1.
After Pittsburgh’s Jan. 18 game in St. Louis, the Penguins will play their last 37 regular-season games in the Eastern Time Zone.
The Eastern Conference champion Tampa Bay Lightning visit Pittsburgh On Saturday Feb. 20 at 12:30 p.m.
The Penguins wrap up the home portion of their schedule on April 3 against the Flyers and will finish the season with road games at Washington and Philadelphia.
The last day of the regular season is Saturday April 9.
- CLICK HERE for the full schedule from the Pittsburgh Penguins' official team website.
Below is a breakdown of how the schedule is created from NHL.com:
The scheduling matrix, ensures that all 30 teams play in all 30 arenas at least once a season.
* 5 games vs. two teams (3 Home/2 Away vs. one team, 2 Home/3 Away vs. one team) AND
4 games vs. five teams (2 Home/2 Away). Teams rotated on a yearly basis.
* 5 x 2 =10 games
* 4 x 5 = 20 games
* 3 games vs. each team (2 Home/1 Away vs. four teams, 1 Home/2 Away vs. four teams).
Teams rotated on a yearly basis.
* 3 x 8 = 24 games
* 2 games vs. each team (1 Home/1 Away)
* 2 x 14 = 28 games
* 5 games vs. five teams (3 Home/2 Away vs. two teams, 2 Home/3 Away vs. three teams) AND
4 games vs. one team (2 Home/2 Away). Teams rotated on a yearly basis.
* 5 x 5 =25 games
* 1 x 4 = 4 games
* 3 games vs. each team (2 Home/1 Away vs. four teams, 1 Home/2 Away vs. three teams).
Teams rotated on a yearly basis.
* 3 x 7 = 21 games
* 2 games vs. each team (1 Home/1 Away)
* 2 x 16 = 32 games
Exception: One team from each division plays one less game inside division and one more game inside conference outside division.