2026-27 regular season

The Travel
Grind

How far does every NHL team travel and when does the schedule squeeze hardest? Follow each club arena to arena through all 84 games.

-Games

-Avg. team travel

-Season window

At a glance

Who carries the heaviest load?

Intensity layers compressed game windows on top of the travel route. Higher means harder.

Team profile

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Club

Total travel--

Intensity--

Back-to-backs-Second games

3 games in 4 days-Rolling windows

4 games in 6 days-Rolling windows

Intensity through the season

Monthly load points combine games, compressed windows, and distance. Each marker indicates a set of back-to-back games.

All 32 clubs

League comparison

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Intensity rank	Team	Travel rank	Distance	Load points	Back-to-backs	3 in 4	4 in 6	Longest trip

Methodology

Distance you can audit. Intensity you can read.

Travel route

Great-circle distance between home-arena coordinates. Every club starts at home, moves directly from one game venue to the next, and returns home after game 84. Actual flight paths, airports, practice travel, and unscheduled returns home are not known.

Compressed windows

A back-to-back is a pair of team games on adjacent calendar dates. A 3-in-4 or 4-in-6 is recorded when consecutive games fit inside four or six calendar dates. Windows can overlap because each is a separate fatigue exposure.

Load points

games + 1.25 × B2B + 0.75 × 3-in-4 + 0.5 × 4-in-6 + km ÷ 5,000. This transparent comparison index is not a player-fatigue model; time zones, puck-drop times, and roster effects are outside its scope.