MANALAPAN, Fla. — Is it 2028 yet?<\/p>\n
After the Olympic men\u2019s hockey tournament in Milan last month, who can wait for the World Cup of Hockey in two years?<\/p>\n
\u201cI think what you saw in the Olympics is an indication of what you\u2019ll see in the World Cup of Hockey,\u201d NHL Deputy Commissioner Bill Daly said Monday, when the NHL and the NHL Players\u2019 Association announced Calgary, Edmonton and Prague as the World Cup host cities.<\/p>\n
In some ways, the World Cup might be better than the Olympics.<\/p>\n
We don\u2019t know all the details yet, including whether Russia will compete. But we know there will be eight teams, not 12 like the Olympics. There shouldn\u2019t be mismatches like there were in the preliminary round in Milan. Team Finland defeated Team Italy 11-0, and Team Canada won 10-2 against Team France.<\/p>\n
\u201cObviously, the hockey got better as the Olympics progressed,\u201d Daly said. \u201cWe\u2019re going to start in a situation where the hockey\u2019s pretty good right away — not pretty good, really good, right away.\u201d<\/p>\n
In the round robin, four teams will play in Prague, four in Calgary. In each pool, the first-place team will get a bye into the semifinals, while the second- and third-place teams will play an elimination game for a spot in the semis.<\/p>\n
The semifinals and the final will be in Edmonton.<\/p>\n
The past two best-on-best tournaments have come down to overtime between Canada and the United States. At the 4 Nations Face-Off last season, Connor McDavid<\/a> scored for Canada. In Milan, Jack Hughes<\/a>\u00a0scored for Team USA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MANALAPAN, Fla. — Is it 2028 yet? After the Olympic men\u2019s hockey tournament in Milan last month, who…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":544741,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-544740","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\/544740","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=544740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544740\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/544741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}