World Cup hockey will return in 2028.
NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman and NHL Gamers Affiliation government director Marty Walsh introduced their return to the boys’s worldwide event on Wednesday earlier than Canada performed Sweden within the 4 Nations showdown.
The World Cup will happen in February 2028 at a location that has not but been named, not an All-Star weekend.
The league says there can be a bidding course of for host cities and venues which are anticipated to open within the coming months.
The NHL final hosted the World Cup in Toronto in 2016. Groups below 23 North America and Staff Europe participated in Canada, the US, Russia, Sweden, Finland and the Czech Republic in an 8-team event.
Bettman reiterates his want to have the best-on-best worldwide event each two years.
NHL gamers will return to the Olympics in 2026 for the primary time since 2014 after lacking out on the 2018 and 2022 video games.
4 nations, between Canada, the US, Sweden and Finland, function Olympic appetizers. The spherical robin event will happen from Curtain Razor in Montreal on Wednesday to the ultimate in Boston on February twentieth.
Russia was faraway from the occasion amid ongoing conflict in Ukraine. The Worldwide Ice Hockey Federation has additionally banned Russia and its allies, Belarus, from occasions at the least till the 2025-26 calendar.
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