The NHL’s latest 4 Nations Face-Off was an enormous success for the league. Regardless of that, there isn’t any assure it is going to be again anytime quickly.
In an look on “The Wealthy Eisen Present” Monday, NHL commissioner Gary Bettman forged some doubt on the way forward for the event. The league has extra formidable plans for worldwide hockey, and desires to stage a bigger competitors along with letting NHL gamers take part in upcoming Winter Olympics competitors.
“The 4 Nations was form of a fast appetizer. There’s Olympics, two years later a World Cup,” Bettman mentioned. “The World Cup can have at the least eight nations collaborating, and that’s one thing we’re within the strategy of finalizing. … We’re seeking to do a full World Cup such as you see in soccer. We’re going to look to do it in a wide range of places, and never simply in North America. We’ll be seeking to do it in Europe as effectively.
“The success has been so fast and overwhelming. We’ve obtained lots of issues to think about and type out, together with what our personal All-Star Recreation appears to be like like going ahead.”