The Pittsburgh Penguins will open the 2014-15 regular season on Thursday, October 9 at 7 p.m. at CONSOL Energy Center.

Two days later the Penguins hit the road for the first time when they face the Toronto Maple Leafs on Saturday, Oct. 11 at 7 p.m. at Air Canada Centre.

Pittsburgh will play seven of its first 10 games at home, including the first meeting of the year against the Philadelphia Flyers on Wednesday, October 22 at 8 p.m. and a visit from the defending Stanley Cup champion Los Angeles Kings on Thursday, October 30 at 7 p.m.

The Penguins’ longest homestand of the year is a four-game stretch that begins with a New Year’s Eve contest against the Carolina Hurricanes on Dec. 31 and continues with games versus a trio of 2014 Eastern Conference playoff teams Tampa Bay, Montreal and Boston that concludes on Jan. 7.

Pittsburgh’s longest stretch of consecutive road games is five between Nov. 4-14 that includes visits to Minnesota, Winnipeg, Buffalo, the New York Rangers and Toronto.

During the ’14-15 regular season the Penguins will have 17 sets of back-to-back games beginning Oct. 22-23 with a home game against Philadelphia and concluding with a visit to Detroit the next night.

The Penguins’ 82-game regular-season slate includes 30 games against fellow Metropolitan Division foes; 24 games against teams from the Atlantic Division; and 28 games against teams from the Western Conference.

Pittsburgh will play five games against the New York Islanders (3 home; 2 away) and New Jersey Devils (2 home; 3 away), and four games (2 home and 2 away) against the other five Metro Division teams.

The Penguins will play three games each against the eight teams in the Atlantic Division – either two at home and one away or once at home and twice away. Teams that the Penguins will play twice at home are Detroit, Boston, Florida and Tampa Bay. Pittsburgh will play Toronto, Buffalo, Montreal and Ottawa just once at home.

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