The Kings and Coyotes will play a pair of preseason games Down Under this year, as the league eyes other future Global Series hosts.
"We've been talking to the AFL for a number of years, even before we were planning to do games. We've had an open relationship with them. It's been a nice message we're getting from them," Proper said."Clearly, we're not a threat to the AFL in Australia. We view them as a great partner to have. If their value can rub off on us and our event some way, that's great.
NHL Street Hockey, the international version of the ball-hockey experience NHL Street, was first introduced in China and currently has around 10,000 young participants. The league's goal is to expand NHL Street Hockey to six key markets by the end of the 2023-24 season: Australia, China, Czechia, Finland, Slovakia and Sweden.
Proper said the league has already seen results in Melbourne. The International Hockey Federation for Australia piloted the NHL Street Hockey School in South Melbourne, holding three sessions with 70 students participating. It proved so popular that the NHL was asked if it could continue the program for an additional three months.
Proper approaches the Melbourne event with both short- and long-term goals in mind. In the short term, he's hoping for an event in which 'the players come back and say, 'That was fantastic, we love it and we want to go back'" to Australia.
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