This season, the NHL [https://www.nhl.com/]’s 32 teams will collectively travel nearly 1.3 million miles and cross over 1,000 time zones during the 2025-26 season. A recent study by Bookies.com analyzed the full NHL schedule and used the haversine formula, which considers the curvature of the Earth, to calculate how far each team will travel based on arena-to-arena distances. Per the report, the Golden Knights [https://thehockeynews.com/nhl/vegas-golden-knights] rank sixth in travel miles (46,916.6), with the first five also coming from the Western Conference. Vegas will cross 52 time zones during the season - most in the NHL. Dallas leads the league in travel miles (50,601.7), while the New York Islanders will travel the least (28,477.3). The Golden Knights, who rank sixth with 362 road points since entering the league in 2017, ranked fifth in the league with 49 road points last season. Since Bruce Cassidy took over as coach in 2022, the Golden Knights have the fifth-most road points (151) i the NHL. The Golden Knights have two three-game trips early in the season, both in October, and two more short ones in November. The Knights will head to the East Coast in December for five games, with stops in New Jersey, Manhattan, Long Island, Philadelphia and Columbus. They have just one other five-game trip the rest of the season, in late February and early March, when they'll stop in Los Angeles before heading back to the Eastern time zone with stops in Washington D.C., Pittsburgh, Buffalo and Detroit.
