On Thursday, the Calgary Flames return home from their four game road trip to host the Buffalo Sabres.

Thursday’s game will be the Flames’ 46th game of the 2024-25 season, their 24th home game of the season, and begins the final 100 regular season home games at the Scotiabank Saddledome.

As you may be aware, the Saddledome opened in 1983 and has been the Flames’ home arena ever since. Heck, since the ‘Dome opened there have been just four instances where the Flames were listed as the home team that didn’t take place in that building:

The other 1,597 regular season games have been played at the Saddledome. Just nine buildings have hosted more games in NHL history. In order, they’re the Montreal Forum, Maple Leaf Gardens, Boston Garden, Chicago Stadium, the current Madison Square Garden, Nassau Coliseum, Mellon Arena, the Olympia in Detroit, and the previous Madison Square Garden.

Barring the NHL completely changing their scheduling, there are exactly 100 regular season games left: 18 this season, and 41 in 2025-26 and 2026-27. The Saddledome will move ahead of the last three buildings on the list and end its time as an NHL arena in seventh place all-time in regular season games hosted. For the 2027-28 season, the Flames will move a block north to Scotia Place.

So how many times will Flames fans get a chance to see the other NHL teams visit the Saddledome?

The answer is both simple and a little complicated, depending on the team.

The Flames play every team in the Eastern Conference twice a season: once at home and once on the road. They play every team in the Central Division three times per season: they play four teams twice at home and once on the road, and the other four teams once at home and twice on the road (and the four-game groupings rotate each year). That’s the simple part.

The Pacific Division games are a bit weird for scheduling. The Flames play five teams four times each: twice at home and twice on the road. Then they play two other teams three times each: one team twice at home and once on the road, and another once at home and twice on the road. And unlike the Central Division, there doesn’t seem to be an exact rotation in the four seasons since Seattle entered the NHL:

So we’re estimating that the Flames will host LA, Seattle, Anaheim and Edmonton twice in each of the next two seasons because they’ve already all drawn the short straw over the last four years. It also means that probably one of San Jose, Vegas and Vancouver will draw the short straw and visit the Saddledome once in each of the next two years.

So… here’s our best, educated guess for how things will look for the final 100 home games in terms of opponents:

* – As noted, one of these three Pacific Division teams each season will have one game at the ‘Dome while the rest will have two. We don’t know which ones yet.

Thursday will be the beginning of a long goodbye to the ‘Dome, friends. And every single NHL club will have multiple times to say their farewells before the ‘Dome closes at the end of the 2026-27 season – especially Anaheim and Seattle because of how the scheduling shakes out.

Only 100 opportunities left for one last Pocket Dog at the old barn. In the regular season, at least.