Some hockey fans will say that National League (NHL) deputy commissioner Bill Daly is repeating himself, but he insisted at a press conference on Thursday on the circuit’s goal of organizing an international tournament in February 2025.
As journalist Chris Johnston of the TSN network indicated on his X account, the NHL wants to move in this direction before sending its players to the 2026 Olympic Games in Milan-Cortina d’Ampezzo. Daly, along with big boss Gary Bettman, was on hand to meet the media on the sidelines of the four-match presentation in Stockholm and also made it clear that a World Cup would take place two years later if everything goes as planned.
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Discussions with the NHL Players’ Association are currently continuing.
In August, Bettman’s right-hand man made the league’s intentions clear. “The goal [est] “to begin a regular rotation between participation in the Olympics and a hockey world championship in the following even years,” he told the website NHL.com.
The last time NHL skaters took part was in Sochi in 2014. Two years later a world championship was also held in Toronto.