2024–25 NHL season

The 2024–25 NHL season is the upcoming 108th season of operation (107th season of play) of the National Hockey League (NHL). The Arizona Coyotes franchise was folded and its players and personnel were transferred to a new expansion team in Utah. The regular season is scheduled to begin on October 4, 2024, when the Buffalo Sabres and New Jersey Devils are to play the first of two games in Prague, Czech Republic, as a part of the 2024 NHL Global Series. The Stanley Cup playoffs are then planned to begin in April 2025, ending with the Stanley Cup Finals in June.

Utah expansion and Arizona Coyotes deactivation
On April 13, 2024, it was reported that, with the NHL's permission, the Arizona Coyotes were making efforts to relocate to Salt Lake City, Utah, following concerns about an indefinite timeframe on a new arena and the effects of continued play at the 4,600-seat Mullett Arena. The sale, which involved the NHL buying the franchise from Coyotes owner Alex Meruelo, then reselling it to Ryan Smith, owner of the Utah Jazz of the National Basketball Association (NBA), was finalized on April 18, after the NHL Board of Governors voted to establish a team in Utah, with the Coyotes' hockey assets; however, rather than formally relocate, the Coyotes franchise was instead marked "inactive", with Utah considered an expansion team in a similar situation to the Cleveland Browns and Baltimore Ravens of the National Football League (NFL). Meruelo subsequently remained on the NHL Board of Governors as an observer, retaining the rights to the Coyotes brand with a five-year window to complete a new arena and "reactivate" the Coyotes as an expansion team. Of the reported US$1.2 billion sale price, 1 billion was paid to Meruelo, with $200 million paid to the NHL's other owners as a relocation fee. In June, the auction was cancelled, and Meruelo left the ownership, ceasing the Coyotes.

The Utah Hockey Club will play home games at the Jazz's home arena, the Delta Center. Renovations will be required to make it the team's permanent home, similar to the renovations made to Climate Pledge Arena before the Kraken began play in the NHL. The team will play its inaugural season without an official name, mascot, or colors, while a full identity is developed in time for 2025–26.

Rule changes
On June 26, 2024, the league announced that following rule changes for the 2024–25 season:


 * The puck-over-glass delay-of-game penalty has been added to the list of plays that can go under video review. This only applies to determine whether the puck instead deflected off a player, stick, the glass or the boards. The judgement call on how the puck left the defensive zone cannot be reviewed. A failed coach's challenge would thus essentially result in a double-minor: both the original puck-over-glass penalty and the failed coach's challenge penalty.
 * The defensive team cannot make a line change after its goaltender accidentally dislodges the net.
 * Following an icing, offensive centers will receive a warning for a faceoff violation, just like defensive players.
 * A team that has players sitting on the boards will first receive a warning, and then be assessed an unsportsmanlike conduct bench minor penalty for subsequent violations.

Entry draft
The 2024 NHL entry draft took place on June 28–29, 2024, at the Sphere in Paradise, Nevada.

Salary cap
Each individual team's salary cap was increased to US$88 million for 2024–25. This was an increase of US$4.5 million from the previous season. The salary cap floor will be increased to US$65 million.

Regular season
The regular season is planned from October 4, 2024, to April 17, 2025.

International games
The Buffalo Sabres and New Jersey Devils are scheduled to play their first two regular season games against each other on October 4 and 5, 2024, at O2 Arena in Prague, Czech Republic. Then, the Dallas Stars and Florida Panthers are scheduled to play two games on November 1 and 2, at Nokia Arena in Tampere, Finland.

Outdoor games
The league has scheduled the following outdoor games:
 * The 2025 NHL Winter Classic will be held on December 31, 2024, at Wrigley Field in Chicago, with the Chicago Blackhawks hosting the St. Louis Blues.
 * One NHL Stadium Series game will be held on March 1, 2025, at Ohio Stadium on the campus of the Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio, with the Columbus Blue Jackets hosting the Detroit Red Wings.

4 Nations Face-Off
Instead of the All-Star Game, the league will hold a new 4 Nations Face-Off tournament as a preview for the NHL's return to Olympic participation in 2026. Four teams representing NHL players from Canada, Finland, Sweden, and the United States will play a total of seven games from February 12 to 20. Games will be held at Boston's TD Garden and Montreal's Bell Centre.

Coaching changes
(*) Indicates interim

Front office changes
(*) Indicates interim

Uniforms
This will be the first season for Fanatics as the official apparel provider of the NHL under a ten-year contract, replacing Adidas, which was the official apparel provider on a seven-year contract from the 2017–18 season.

Wholesale team changes

 * The Anaheim Ducks unveiled a new logo and uniforms, introducing a modernized version of their Mighty Ducks-era primary logo previously utilized from 1993 to 2006, but re-colored in their current orange, black, and gold color scheme. Their new uniforms feature an orange base, with matching helmets and pants.
 * The Los Angeles Kings unveiled a new logo, consisting of a modernized version of their Wayne Gretzky-era logo utilized from 1988 to 1998, with the crown from their original 1967 logo. The Kings also revealed new jerseys, similarly based off their 1988–98 set, and featuring a new matte black helmet.
 * The Utah Hockey Club revealed their temporary logo, colors, and uniforms for their inaugural season. The logo depicts a roundel with a "Utah" wordmark in the center, ringed with "Hockey Club" and colored with mountain blue, rock black, and salt white. The home uniforms consisted of a black base with a diagonal "UTAH" wordmark across the front, with blue and white striping, with the road uniforms utilizing a white base with black and blue striping.

National
This will be the eleventh season of the twelve-year Canadian national broadcast rights deal with Sportsnet. This includes Sportsnet's sub-licensing agreements to air Saturday Hockey Night in Canada games on CBC Television and French-language broadcasts on TVA Sports. Games will be streamed on Sportsnet+, with national games available on the Standard level, out-of-market games on the Premium tier, and via authenticated streaming on participating teams.

This will be the first season of a two-year sub-license for Amazon Prime Video to air Monday Night Hockey, replacing Rogers Monday Night Hockey on Sportsnet.

Local
The Calgary Flames and Edmonton Oilers both begin an 11-year extension with Sportsnet West through the 2034–35 season.

Personnel
Prime Monday Night Hockey will feature a new broadcast team, to be announced at a later date.

The Calgary Flames will have a new TV play-by-play announcer this season after Rick Ball was hired by the Chicago Blackhawks.

National
This will be the fourth season of the league's seven-year U.S. national broadcast rights deals with the ESPN family of networks and TNT Sports. ESPN's contract allows at least 25 exclusive games per season on ABC or ESPN (including ABC Hockey Saturday on selected Saturdays), up to 75 exclusive games streamed on ESPN+ (also simulcast on Hulu), out-of-market games streamed on ESPN+ (under the NHL Power Play branding), exclusive rights to the opening night games and the Stadium Series, and simulcasts/alternate broadcasts on other ESPN networks. TNT Sports' contract allows for up to 72 games per season (some may be non-exclusive broadcasts and thus blacked out in local markets), including Wednesday night games, selected Sunday games, the Winter Classic, simulcasts/alternate broadcasts on TBS and TruTV, and the rights to stream its games on Max. While ESPN and ABC would normally televise the All-Star skills competition and the All-Star Game, respectively, the eight-day 4 Nations Face-Off tournament will be split by ABC, ESPN, and TNT. As per the rotation, TNT will hold rights to the Stanley Cup Finals this season.

Local
Bally Sports will be rebranded before the start of the season.

The Chicago Blackhawks, the NBA's Chicago Bulls, MLB's Chicago White Sox, and Standard Media will launch the Chicago Sports Network, replacing NBC Sports Chicago as their regional broadcaster.

The Seattle Kraken will begin a multi-year agreement with Tegna to start airing games on Tegna's Seattle broadcast stations KING and KONG, replacing Root Sports Northwest as the Kraken's regional broadcaster, and syndicate the telecasts to other stations across the team's broadcast territory. Amazon Prime Video will also stream Tegna's Kraken games within the team's territory.

As part of the asset transfer, the Utah expansion team received the Arizona Coyotes' existing broadcasting contract with Scripps Sports. KUPX-TV in Salt Lake City, which had been televising Coyotes and Vegas Golden Knights games, will become the Utah team's new flagship station.

The Florida Panthers will also begin a multi-year agreement with Scripps Sports to broadcast games on three Scripps-owned stations: WSFL-TV in Miami/Fort Lauderdale, WHDT in West Palm Beach and a yet-to-be-announced station in Fort Myers. They will replace Bally Sports Florida as their broadcaster.

In July 2024, Diamond Sports Group requested the termination of its contract with between the Dallas Stars and Bally Sports Southwest. The Stars subsequently announced a new digital platform known as Victory+ as part of a partnership with A Parent Media Co., which will carry the team's ancillary video content, and stream regionally-televised games in-market for free.

Personnel
The Boston Bruins will have a new TV play-by-play announcer this season following the retirement of Jack Edwards.

The Columbus Blue Jackets hired Steve Mears to replace Jeff Rimer as the team's TV play-by-play announcer. Mears was most recently the play-by-play announcer for the Pittsburgh Penguins, spending six seasons on television before moving to radio last season.

The Chicago Blackhawks hired Rick Ball to replace Chris Vosters as the team's TV play-by-play announcer. Ball was previously the lead TV play-by-play announcer for the Calgary Flames and occasional announcer of Sportsnet's national NHL broadcasts.