{"id":506515,"date":"2026-03-16T18:18:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T18:18:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/506515\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T18:18:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T18:18:16","slug":"nhl-announce-2028-world-cup-of-hockey-pro-hockey-rumors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/506515\/","title":{"rendered":"NHL Announce 2028 World Cup Of Hockey \u2013 Pro Hockey Rumors"},"content":{"rendered":"

NHL general managers are convening in Palm Beach, Florida for a week of GM meetings beginning on Monday. A top agenda item will be preparing the announcement for the 2028 World Cup of Hockey, per Pierre LeBrun of The Athletic<\/a>. The tournament has been held three times between 1996 and 2016. It was most recently held from September 17 to September 29, 2016, in Toronto. The 2028 iteration of the tournament was originally announced in February 2025<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Despite claims that the tournament will move forward without IIHF involvement<\/a>, the NHL has announced that they are partnering with the international body to help ensure players from outside the NHL can be made available per NHL.com\u2019s Dan Rosen<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The league made the official announcement<\/a> at 12:30 P.M. ET on Monday. In it, Calgary and Edmonton, Canada, and Prague, Czechia, were revealed as the hosts cities. The event will take place in February, 2028 \u2013 in the middle of the 2027-28 season. Prague and Calgary will each host half of the round robin section of the tournament, while Edmonton will host the semi-finals and finals.<\/p>\n

The last iteration of the tournament brought together six countries \u2013 America, Canada, Russia, Finland, Sweden, and Czechia \u2013 as well as two specialized teams, one featuring talent from other European countries and another featuring the top U24 players in America and Canada. The resulting Team North America brought together many NHL superstars well ahead of their prime, including Connor McDavid<\/a>, Jack Eichel<\/a>, Aaron Ekblad<\/a>, Nathan MacKinnon<\/a>, and more.<\/p>\n

Team North America posted a 2-1-0 record and scored an 11-to-eight goal-differential \u2013 but ultimately lost out to Russia\u2019s fewer goals-against (five) in the standings. Russia lost to Team Canada in the first round of the knockout stage, while Team Europe beat Sweden on the other side. Canada would go on to win the tournament, proudly led by leading scorer Sidney Crosby<\/a>. Alongside Patrice Bergeron<\/a>, Jonathan Toews<\/a>, Brad Marchand<\/a>, and Carey Price<\/a> \u2013 Crosby was able to lead Canada to a win over Europe\u2019s Mats Zuccarello<\/a>, Anze Kopitar<\/a>, Marian Gaborik<\/a>, and Leon Draisaitl<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The next iteration of the World Cup of Hockey should similarly bring together world class talent in a best-on-best competition in the years leading up to the 2030 Winter Olympics. One questoin the NHL will need to be prepared to answer is if, and where, Russian talent will fit into the conversation. The country has been, and continues to be, excluded from all IIHF competition dating back to 2022, after Russia invaded Ukraine. The NHL will not have to abide by the IIHF\u2019s decision but has previously said that Russia is not expected to be invited to the event<\/a>, however the NHL did not confirm this in their press conference following the official announcement.<\/p>\n

If the NHL chooses to bolster the number of contending teams with another Team Europe or Team North America will also be closely followed. The league has no shortage of young talent breaking through \u2013 with stars like Macklin Celebrini<\/a> and Matthew Schaefer<\/a> even making their case for league-best titles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NHL general managers are convening in Palm Beach, Florida for a week of GM meetings beginning on Monday.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":506516,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[5,30,4,403,3037,34888,15375,6101],"class_list":["post-506515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-hockey","tag-newsstand","tag-nhl","tag-players","tag-team-canada","tag-team-europe","tag-team-north-america","tag-world-cup"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116240233595841948","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=506515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506515\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/506516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}