Avalanche Schedule December 2026: 13 Games, Winter Classic Dec. 31

The Colorado Avalanche play 13 games in December 2026, six of them at Ball Arena in Denver, according to the National Hockey League (NHL) club schedule. The month opens Tuesday, Dec. 1, at Boston at 6 p.m. Mountain Time (MT), which is 8 p.m. Eastern Time (ET), and ends Thursday, Dec. 31, with the Winter Classic against the Mammoth.

The source is the NHL’s club schedule feed for Colorado, read Nov. 14, 2026. It gives every start in UTC, so we converted the times to MT, which is Denver time, and ET, and worked out the weekdays. The feed lists broadcasters as of that date, which can change. A one-page printable follows the table.

Avalanche December 2026 game times and TV by game

The feed splits listings by market. “Colorado channels” are the outlets it tags for the Avalanche’s market, shown as the feed’s short codes: the code on most Avalanche games (ALT), its second feed (ALT2), and two Denver broadcast stations, listed by their call signs (KTVD) and (KUSA). “National U.S.” are channels the feed lists for the whole country, such as Turner Network Television (TNT). Canadian listings are Sportsnet (SN), Sportsnet One (SN1), Sportsnet+ (SN+) and Télé-Diffuseurs Associés (TVA) Sports. “None listed” means the feed shows no broadcaster of that kind.

Date	Game	Venue	Time (MT)	Time (ET)	Colorado channels	National U.S.	Canadian TV
Tue., Dec. 1	Avalanche at Bruins	TD Garden, Boston	6 p.m.	8 p.m.	None listed	TNT, truTV, HBO Max	TVA Sports
Thu., Dec. 3	Avalanche at Red Wings	Little Caesars Arena, Detroit	5 p.m.	7 p.m.	ALT, KTVD	None listed	None listed
Sat., Dec. 5	Avalanche at Rangers	Madison Square Garden, New York	5 p.m.	7 p.m.	ALT	None listed	None listed
Mon., Dec. 7	Avalanche at Islanders	UBS Arena	11 a.m.	1 p.m.	ALT	None listed	SN+
Tue., Dec. 8	Avalanche at Blues	Enterprise Center, St. Louis	6 p.m.	8 p.m.	None listed	ESPN+, Hulu, Disney+	None listed
Sat., Dec. 12	Capitals at Avalanche	Ball Arena, Denver	7 p.m.	9 p.m.	ALT2, KTVD	None listed	TVA Sports
Mon., Dec. 14	Mammoth at Avalanche	Ball Arena, Denver	7 p.m.	9 p.m.	ALT	None listed	None listed
Wed., Dec. 16	Islanders at Avalanche	Ball Arena, Denver	7 p.m.	9 p.m.	KUSA, ALT, KTVD	None listed	None listed
Fri., Dec. 18	Hurricanes at Avalanche	Ball Arena, Denver	7 p.m.	9 p.m.	ALT	None listed	None listed
Sun., Dec. 20	Kraken at Avalanche	Ball Arena, Denver	6 p.m.	8 p.m.	ALT	None listed	None listed
Sun., Dec. 27	Avalanche at Ducks	Honda Center, Anaheim	6 p.m.	8 p.m.	ALT2	None listed	SN1
Tue., Dec. 29	Blues at Avalanche	Ball Arena, Denver	7 p.m.	9 p.m.	ALT, KTVD	None listed	None listed
Thu., Dec. 31	Avalanche vs. Mammoth, Winter Classic	Rice-Eccles Stadium, Salt Lake City	4 p.m.	6 p.m.	None listed	TNT, truTV, HBO Max	SN, TVA Sports

Listings change. Check NHL.com on game day.

How many Avalanche games are at Ball Arena in December 2026?

Six: Dec. 12, 14, 16, 18, 20 and 29. Our own count from the feed: six away games, at TD Garden in Boston on Dec. 1, Little Caesars Arena in Detroit on Dec. 3, Madison Square Garden in New York on Dec. 5, UBS Arena on Dec. 7, Enterprise Center in St. Louis on Dec. 8 and Honda Center in Anaheim on Dec. 27. The 13th game, on Dec. 31, is at Rice-Eccles Stadium in Salt Lake City, where the feed lists Utah as the home team.

Three opponents appear twice: the Islanders (Dec. 7 away, Dec. 16 at home), the Blues (Dec. 8 away, Dec. 29 at home) and the Mammoth (Dec. 14 at home, Dec. 31 in Salt Lake City).

Five road games, five at home and a break: the December 2026 stretches

These are our own counts from the feed:

• Five straight road games, Dec. 1 to Dec. 8: Boston, Detroit, the Rangers, the Islanders and St. Louis. The Avalanche’s first home game is Sat., Dec. 12.
• Five straight home games, Dec. 12 to Dec. 20: the Capitals, Mammoth, Islanders, Hurricanes and Kraken, all starting at 7 p.m. MT (9 p.m. ET) except Dec. 20 at 6 p.m. MT (8 p.m. ET).
• No game, Dec. 21 to Dec. 26: the feed shows nothing for those six days. The next game is Sun., Dec. 27, at Anaheim, 6 p.m. MT (8 p.m. ET).
• Earliest start, Mon., Dec. 7: at the Islanders, 11 a.m. MT (1 p.m. ET), with ALT in Colorado and SN+ in Canada.
• Three games with no Colorado channel: Dec. 1 at Boston, Dec. 8 at St. Louis and Dec. 31 in Salt Lake City. The Dec. 1 game lists TNT, truTV and HBO Max in the U.S., and TVA Sports in Canada. The feed lists the New England Sports Network (NESN) for Boston’s market only. The Dec. 8 game lists ESPN+, Hulu and Disney+ and no Canadian channel, and the Dec. 31 game is covered below.

The Kraken game on Dec. 20 lists Prime Video and a second Seattle outlet (KONG) for Seattle’s market only, and the Dec. 27 game at Anaheim lists Prime Video for Anaheim’s market only. Neither is tagged to Colorado in the feed.

Avalanche vs. Mammoth in the Winter Classic on Dec. 31, 2026

The month ends outdoors. The feed lists the Avalanche against the Mammoth at Rice-Eccles Stadium in Salt Lake City on Thursday, Dec. 31, with a 4 p.m. MT (6 p.m. ET) start. Utah is the listed home team, and we count the game as neutral-site. The U.S. channels are TNT, truTV and HBO Max, and the Canadian ones are Sportsnet and TVA Sports. Start times by other U.S. zones are in our Winter Classic 2027 story.

The Dec. 14 game against the same team is at Ball Arena. The Wild December schedule and the Jets December schedule cover two other clubs’ December games.

Printable Avalanche schedule for December 2026

The free one-page sheet lists all 13 games with home, away or neutral site, start times in Mountain and Eastern Time, TV listings and a result box. Keep it next to the December 2026 printable calendar or copy the games into a printable weekly calendar.

Confirm puck drop and channel on NHL.com before game day. Results, line-ups, tickets and January games are not part of the data used here and are not covered.