An Original Six matinee on the Strip: the Montreal Canadiens visit the Vegas Golden Knights on Saturday, November 28, 2026, at T-Mobile Arena, with puck drop at 1:00 PM Pacific and doors at 11:45 AM, per the arena’s official listing. Afternoon hockey in Las Vegas means you can catch a marquee NHL game and still have your whole Saturday night ahead of you.
Montreal visits are an event unto themselves. Canadiens fans are among the best-traveling in hockey, and the red-white-and-blue sweaters will be scattered all through The Fortress. November 28 is also one of the busiest sports days of the year in Las Vegas, with the Players Era championship game at Michelob ULTRA Arena that evening — the city will be wall-to-wall basketball and hockey fans.
Date, time and game details
What: Montreal Canadiens vs Vegas Golden Knights — NHL regular season
When: Saturday, November 28, 2026, at 1:00 PM Pacific (doors 11:45 AM)
Where: T-Mobile Arena, 3780 S Las Vegas Blvd, Las Vegas, NV 89109
The game appears on T-Mobile Arena’s official event calendar. Matinee games have their own rhythm at T-Mobile: families fill the afternoon crowd, the pregame show plays just the same, and a 1:00 PM start puts the final horn right around happy hour on the Strip.
About the matchup
Montreal’s rebuild has matured into a fast, skilled young core that plays an entertaining, up-tempo style — the kind of team that can turn a road matinee into a track meet. Vegas answers with structure and size: the Golden Knights defend the middle of the ice as well as anyone and lean on their home crowd, which treats every Original Six visit like a playoff game. Goaltending usually headlines this matchup — Montreal’s crease has a way of stealing afternoons, and Vegas will test it early and often.
The venue
T-Mobile Arena, 3780 S Las Vegas Blvd, Las Vegas, NV 89109, seats 17,500 for hockey and sits just off the Las Vegas Strip behind New York-New York and Park MGM. Known to fans as The Fortress, it pairs a theatrical pregame production with one of the loudest home crowds in the NHL. Day games show off a different side of the building — the glass and steel exterior in full desert sun, and Toshiba Plaza outside buzzing from late morning.
Tickets
Tickets are available through the arena’s official seller, AXS, linked from the official T-Mobile Arena event page. The arena does not publish one fixed price — seats are priced by section and demand, with the total shown at checkout. Canadiens games are always a strong draw in Las Vegas, so the lower bowl moves early.
Getting to T-Mobile Arena
T-Mobile Arena is at 3780 S Las Vegas Blvd, Las Vegas, NV 89109, on the west side of the Strip. The Las Vegas Monorail stops at MGM Grand, a short walk away. Paid parking is available in the New York-New York and Park MGM garages and at the Excalibur lots, and rideshare drop-off runs along Frank Sinatra Drive behind the arena. For an 11:45 AM door time, brunch on the Strip and a walk over is the relaxed play.
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Make a night of it
With a 1:00 PM start, the postgame options are endless: Toshiba Plaza and The Park are right outside the doors, dinner reservations anywhere on the Strip are in play, and the Players Era championship game tips off across town at Michelob ULTRA Arena at 7:30 PM for fans doing the hockey-basketball doubleheader.