Nhl Season Start 2025 Schedule. For the first time, there will be two national hockey league winter classic games in a single calendar year when the 2024/25 nhl winter classic takes place on december 31,. The first day of the 2025 playoffs will be april 19th, 2025, two days after the last day of the regular.

Tuesday’s winter classic will be part of a full. Here is how the nhl breaks up the regular season: