The NHL intends to transfer the World Cup in 2024. Russia can play there, but it’s energized – Hockey News
In Europe, the annual day of the NHL. Usually, questions about the future of the league are usually discussed. Deputy Commissioner Bill Daly commented that the organization intends to host the World Cup in 2024 in a random month.
This tournament was last held in 2016. The fact that the NHL intends to hold the World Cup, rumors have been around for a long time. First, all profits and proceeds will go to the league. Secondly, at the last two Olympics there were no representatives of the leading hockey league in the world, and all countries were not opposed to going to China in 2022 for the Olympics, but problems with the pandemic overlapped and almost at the last moment the NHL decided not to let its hockey players go. As an alternative, the union and the league decided to revive the World Cup.
The NHL wants eight teams to participate in the tournament. Most likely, it will not do without the gathering of young stars of North America and the European team. This is the only way to add competition, because the Slovaks, Swiss and Germans are unlikely to pull the competition alone.
Naturally, there are serious tournaments of this magnitude without the Russian team. But Daley said that the participation of our team in the events is still under threat. It’s hard to imagine the World Cup without Russian NHL stars. dissipation that the matches of the upcoming events will take place in Europe, the USA and Canada, while the semi-final games and the final will take place only in North America.
In Canada, in general, there is zero suspicion of accumulated Russia. The public does not contain a featured topic, nor does the mainstream media. They gave the usual headline that the NHL was going to give up the World Cup. The audience of natural resources said that it was time for the Nkhlovites to play at the Olympics.
The Finnish edition of Iltalehti followed the same path, noting that the Russian team is now under a lot. However, as a result of the publication has already happened that our team will not, which is normal. It is unlikely that this is “normal”, you can ask the IIHF, which has lost additional sponsors from our country, as well as important matches and one of the main favorites of the tournament, both in the adult WCH and in the MFM with JWCH.
Tougher situation in the quarter segment. An article appeared on the portable portal Sport.cz with the title: “A ten-year-old team takes part in the Ice Hockey World Cup. What will happen to Russia?” There it is expected that the league has suspended business in our country, but NHL participants continue to participate.
The commentators themselves decided on this issue, saying that Russia’s place of assembly is to play with Belarus, China and North Korea. Perhaps the most persistent comment came from this country.
One user wrote: “I don’t want to see Russians on any sports field in the civilized world.”
However, the decision will be made not by the host journalists and not even Hasek, but by the league, for which there is a clean business, money for the stars, and many stars from our country. And at the moment, statements that participation in the Russian national team out of necessity looks like an obvious delay in time. A rating hockey tournament is not given without our team, especially one made up of NHL stars.