Henderson, Nevada—If a World Cup of Hockey materializes in the near future, it won't be a traditional international tournament like the Olympics. The National Hockey League (NHL) and NHL Players’ Association are still planning to host a World Cup in February 2025, though the sides have scaled back what they think they…
. The aim is still for 2025, which would come a year before the Winter Olympics in Milan and Cortina, Italy.
Daly said World Cup preparations are ongoing simultaneously with negotiations to send NHL players to the 2026 Olympics. The league and players agreed in to participate, but that’s pending an agreement with the International Olympic Committee and International Ice Hockey Federation. NHL players haven’t gone to the Olympics since 2014 in Sochi. While the plan was to participate in Beijing in 2022, pandemic schedule interruptions caused the league to pull out.
The same issues of who’s paying for insurance and travel costs that kept NHL players out of the 2018 Games in Pyeongchang remain. Daly said he’d like to have clarity on the situation by early 2024. “We hope to get on kind of a regular rotating scenario where you’d have a World Cup in ’28, an Olympics in ‘30, a World Cup in ’32, Olympics in ’34,” Daly said.
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