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NHL, NHLPA moving forward with plans for a 2024 World Cup of Hockey

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Cooper Godin
August 24, 2022  (12:27)
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During the NHL's European Player Media Tour in Paris on Wednesday, Deputy Commissioner Bill Daly announced that the league and the NHLPA are moving forward with plans to hold a World Cup of Hockey in 2024.

The tournament will be held during a 17-day window in February 2024 and will feature at least eight nations, with the possibility of ten.

"We're moving full steam ahead and that means we're continuing to have regular meetings," NHL Deputy Commissioner Bill Daly said.

He added, "We're out in market already moving ahead with plans for a February 2024 World Cup. We're still on schedule."

Daly added that ideally, the NHL wants to hold one of the preliminary round groups in Europe and the other in North America, with a different North American city hosting the semi-finals and final.

"We still want to play one pool in Europe, a preliminary round pool in Europe and a preliminary round pool in North America and move the semifinals and the final to a different city in North America likely," he said. "I think that short list would universally encompass more traditional hockey markets."

If the NHL goes based off of the IIHF rankings and sticks with eight nations, that means Finland, Canada, United States, Sweden, Czechia, Switzerland, Slovakia and Germany would all qualify for the tournament, assuming Russia is still banned at that point, which remains unclear.

This will be the fourth World Cup of Hockey tournament. The first was held in 1996, followed by 2004 and then 2016. Canada won the latter two tournaments, while the United States were the inaugural winners.

Source: NHL.com.