Matt Herr calls the Chelsea Challenge one of the busiest intersections in New York City.<\/p>\n
The 24th annual tournament hosted by the New York City Pride Hockey Alliance is where\u00a0LGBTQ+ players and their allies, family and friends converge for a Memorial Day weekend of competition, fellowship, fun and purpose in a safe space at Sky Rink at Chelsea Piers, overlooking the Hudson River in Manhattan.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt’s an intersection of hockey, where all sorts of members of the hockey community — \u00a0LGBTQ+, allies — everybody that’s involved in our sport is finding a common ground and a place to meet over hockey,\u201d said Herr, NHL senior director of community development and industry growth and a retired forward who played 58 games with the Washington Capitals, Florida Panthers and Boston Bruins from 1998-2002. \u201cIt\u2019s enjoyable.\u201d<\/p>\n
Herr is joining 17 of his NHL colleagues on a team competing in the B Division of the tournament that begins Friday and runs through Monday. It\u2019s the seventh consecutive Chelsea Challenge the League will play in.<\/p>\n
The participation is part of a longstanding commitment from the NHL to support LGBTQ+ hockey organizations and to host celebrations of authenticity.<\/p>\n
The League co-hosted the 2026 NHL Unites Pride Cup in Surrey, British Columbia, Feb. 28-March 1, with longtime partner Pride Tape, which recently celebrated their 10th anniversary, and by the You Can Play Project, another League partner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Matt Herr calls the Chelsea Challenge one of the busiest intersections in New York City. The 24th annual…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":683722,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-683721","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\/683721","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=683721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683721\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/683722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=683721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=683721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=683721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}