{"id":475802,"date":"2026-02-12T20:30:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T20:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/475802\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T20:30:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T20:30:09","slug":"bettman-says-nhl-will-follow-iihf-lead-on-russia-belarus-for-2028-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/475802\/","title":{"rendered":"Bettman says NHL will follow IIHF lead on Russia, Belarus for 2028 World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The fate of Russia for the 2028 World Cup will lie in the hands of the IIHF.<\/p>\n<p>NHL commissioner Gary Bettman said Thursday the league would &#8220;follow what the international community&#8221; is doing regarding Russia and Belarus&#8217; participation in the tournament, which is run by the league.<\/p>\n<p>To that end, IIHF president Luc Tardif <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/mattyports\/status\/2021958054800241041\" rel=\"nofollow\">said<\/a> he wants Russia and Belarus back in action &#8220;as soon as possible &#8230; because that means the world will be better.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Russia has been formally banned from competition by the IIHF, hockey&#8217;s international body, since 2022 in the wake of the country&#8217;s invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>A team of Russians earned silver at the 2022 Beijing Olympics under the Russian Olympic Committee banner due to sanctions from a 2014 doping scandal.<\/p>\n<p>Russia was not included in the inaugural 4 Nations Face-Off last February, the first best-on-best international men&#8217;s hockey competition since 2014, which was the last time NHLers competed at the Olympics.<\/p>\n<p>No Russian teams were allowed to compete at the Milano-Cortina Olympics, though some Russians are competing in individual sports as neutral athletes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The fate of Russia for the 2028 World Cup will lie in the hands of the IIHF. NHL&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":475803,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-475802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475802","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=475802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475802\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/475803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}