The National Hockey League announced Friday that the New York Islanders will host the 2027 All-Star Weekend. The move comes only days after the NHL cancelled the Olympic send-off event set for the UBS Arena on Long Island in February.
The Islanders had originally been awarded the 2026 All-Star Game, but that was cancelled last spring when the league decided not to hold the game in the same year as the Winter Olympics. The idea then became to turn the weekend into a pre-Olympics event, but that, too, was scrapped.
The 2027 event will mark the first All-Star Game in the state of New York since 1994, when the New York Rangers hosted it at Madison Square Garden, and the first on Long Island since the Nassau Coliseum played host in 1983.
The NHL experienced a new wave of interest this past winter when the traditional All-Star Game was replaced by the 4 Nations Face-Off, a four-team tournament contested by winners Canada, the United States, Sweden and Finland.
The All-Star Weekend is set to begin on Feb. 5, 2027.