The 2025-26 NHL season began Tuesday, and when it did the Opening Night rosters for all 32 teams featured players from all sorts of age groups and backgrounds. Here is a look at the Opening Night rosters provided by NHLStats.

726 – Players on official opening-day rosters.

304 – Canadian players, the most of any country (41.9 percent of 726).

232 – Players born in the 2000s (up from 169 last year), nearly one-third of the League (each team

carries at least two).

195 – American players (26.9 percent of 726); the most American nationals to play in season openers in one campaign is 178, achieved in 2023-24.

91 – Percentage of players whose nationality is one of the 12 countries that will participate in the Olympic Winter Games Milano Cortina 2026 (Canada, 304; Czechia, 19; Denmark,

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