{"id":514472,"date":"2026-03-02T19:47:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T19:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/514472\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T19:47:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T19:47:09","slug":"nhl-brass-to-visit-calgarys-scotia-place-for-2028-world-cup-of-hockey-consideration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/514472\/","title":{"rendered":"NHL brass to visit Calgary\u2019s Scotia Place for 2028 World Cup of Hockey consideration"},"content":{"rendered":"

NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman and Deputy Commissioner Bill Daly on Monday are traveling to Calgary \u201cfor a site visit of Scotia Place<\/a>\u201a\u201d which could be a potential 2028 World Cup of Hockey host, according to Eric Francis of SPORTSNET.ca. The visit will feature a \u201csit-down with ownership, a tour of the arena\u2019s construction site and an update on the building\u2019s progress.\u201d Calgary is \u201con the short list\u201d of North American applicants to round-robin play games alongside a yet-to-be-determined European applicant. Sources suggest that the \u201cworld-class pitch tabled by the Flames and city partners is going to be hard to beat.\u201d The plan \u201cgoes well beyond hosting games,\u201d as Calgary is \u201cpromising a festival\u2011style atmosphere built around concerts, fan events, and community celebrations.\u201d Scotia Place is set to open in the fall of 2027, and Bettman has a \u201clong history of rewarding cities that get new venues built by awarding them flagship events.\u201d Francis wrote Calgary Sports and Entertainment Corporation Chair Murray Edwards\u2019 \u201cinfluence in league circles doesn\u2019t hurt either.\u201d But what is \u201creally pushing Calgary forward is the sheer scale of what\u2019s being proposed: not just a tournament, but a two\u2011week celebration of the sport, wrapped around the debut of what will be the world\u2019s newest, most modern hockey arena.\u201d Francis: \u201cCalgary\u2019s bid checks every box: a new arena, a global-event pedigree, a hockey-mad market, and a plan that elevates the tournament beyond the ice. If the league wants a showcase, Calgary is ready to deliver one.\u201d Daly revealed on Sunday that the venue announcements for the event \u201care two weeks away\u201d (SPORTSNET.ca, 3\/1<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman and Deputy Commissioner Bill Daly on Monday are traveling to Calgary \u201cfor a site…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":514473,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,3915,575,85],"class_list":["post-514472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-hockey","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514472","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=514472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514472\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/514473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=514472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=514472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=514472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}