NHL Fan Day is taking place in Prague
NEW YORK/TORONTO/PRAGUE (September 7, 2022) – As part of the 2022 NHL Global Series, the National Hockey League (NHL), the National Hockey League Players Association (NHLPA) and Live Nation today announced the 2022 NHL Global Series Fan Day, a special opportunity for fans to attend practice sessions for the Nashville Predators and San Jose Sharks. on Thursday, October 6 from 15:00 to 17:30 at the O2 Arena in Prague, i.e. the day before the opening game of the 2022-23 season between the Predators and the Sharks.
Tickets for Predators and Sharks training sessions will be on sale from September 8 at 10:00 CEST on Ticketmaster.cz and Ticketportal.cz networks.
In April, the NHL, NHLPA and Live Nation Sweden announced that the Predators and Sharks, along with the Columbus Blue Jackets and Colorado Avalanche, will participate in the 2022 NHL Global Series. The Sharks and Predators will open the 2022-23 regular season with a matchup in Prague at the O2 Arena on Friday, 7 October and on Saturday October 8. The Avalanche and Blue Jackets will square off in two regular season games at Finland’s Nokia Arena in Tampere on Friday, November 4th and Saturday, November 5th.
Prior to the games in Prague, the Predators and Sharks will complete their training camps in Europe and each will play an exhibition game as part of the NHL Global Series Challenge 2022. The Predators will report to Bern, Switzerland and play an exhibition game against SC Bern at the PostFinance Arena on Monday, October 3. The Sharks will report to Berlin, Germany and play an exhibition game against Eisbären Berlin at the Mercedes-Benz Arena on Tuesday, October 4th.
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The 2022 NHL Global Series will mark the ninth season overall that the NHL has traveled to Europe for regular season games, the first time since 2019. These games are a reward for the legions of loyal and passionate fans in Europe who enjoy NHL live streaming of games available via international broadcasting and media partners. The NHL’s biggest stars are also featured on multiple social media platforms and on NHL.com in eight languages for the league’s international fans. 28 regular season NHL games were played in Europe. So far, five games of the regular season of the NHL have taken place in the Czech Republic, all of which took place in Prague’s O2 arena. This year’s games in Finland will be the first ever NHL regular season games to be played in Tampere. A complete list of NHL regular season games played outside of North America can be found here.
The NHL is a global league – 29% of NHL players in the 2021-22 season were born outside of North America. All four clubs have foreign stars on their rosters, including natives of many of the countries they host. They will be in October Roman Josi AND Nino Niederreiter of the Predators to play in their native Switzerland. Born in the Czech Republic, Tomáš Hertl a Radim Šimek from the Sharks team will play in their home country for the first time as NHL players. In addition, the Blue Jackets and Avalanche games in Finland will be played in their home country Mikko Rantanen AND Arthur Lehkonen from Avalanche, as well as Tampere natives Patrick Laine AND Joonas Korpisalo of the Blue Jackets and Blue Jackets general manager Jarmo Kekalainen.
Additional information on the 2022 NHL Global Series and the 2022 NHL Global Series Challenge will be posted as it becomes available on NHL.com/fi, NHL.com/cs and NHL.com/de and on the international social media accounts @NHL_fi, @NHLcz and @NHLde, which will serve as the official home for all the latest NHL Global Series 2022 news and information and other features from around the NHL. Media wishing to receive announcements and notices with the 2022 NHL Global Series and the 2022 NHL Global Series Challenge must log in and sign up at https://media.nhl.com.