{"id":231971,"date":"2025-10-22T08:06:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T08:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/231971\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T08:06:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T08:06:09","slug":"nhl-reportedly-cancels-olympic-sendoff-event-reveals-plans-for-2027-all-star-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/231971\/","title":{"rendered":"NHL Reportedly Cancels Olympic Sendoff Event, Reveals Plans for 2027 All-Star Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">The NHL reportedly will no longer hold an Olympic sendoff event at the home of the New York Islanders this season and will instead hold All-Star Weekend at UBS Arena in 2027, according to <a class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-inherit MuiLink-root MuiLink-underlineAlways MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__ui__link__medium_strong css-lu48cp\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/story\/_\/id\/46678462\/nhl-cancels-olympic-sendoff-event-islanders-set-host-all-star-weekend-2027\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">ESPN<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">The NHL <a class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-inherit MuiLink-root MuiLink-underlineAlways MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__ui__link__medium_strong css-lu48cp\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/story\/_\/id\/45010887\/source-nhl-sub-26-all-star-weekend-international-event\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">announced<\/a> in May plans to hold an Olympic sendoff event at UBS Arena in place of All-Star Weekend in February, with players, coaches, and staff set to gather in New York before flying out of John F. Kennedy International Airport to Milan for the Winter Olympics. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">After the success of the 4 Nations Face-Off tournament\u00a0during All-Star Weekend earlier this year, officials questioned whether to return to traditional All-Star Weekend festivities, such as a skills competition and either a game or the 3-on-3 tournament. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">The Winter Olympics will take place from Feb. 5 to Feb. 22. The league will have a mid-season break during that time rather than an All-Star Weekend. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">NHL commissioner Gary Bettman said in April that the format for the 2027 All-Star Weekend is not yet finalized. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">&#8220;We&#8217;ll have an event at UBS before we go to the Olympics but then we&#8217;ll do something that&#8217;s more focused on a major hockey event for the following year,&#8221; Bettman <a class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-inherit MuiLink-root MuiLink-underlineAlways MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__ui__link__medium_strong css-lu48cp\" href=\"https:\/\/bleacherreport.com\/articles\/25191623-gary-bettman-says-nhl-planning-olympics-kickoff-event-2026-all-star-weekend\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">said<\/a>. &#8220;We have a little bit of time to finalize what we&#8217;re doing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">According to ESPN, the NHL hopes to have the 2027 All-Star Weekend at UBS Arena from Feb. 5-7. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NHL reportedly will no longer hold an Olympic sendoff event at the home of the New York&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":231972,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-231971","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231971\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}