{"id":470759,"date":"2026-02-12T19:14:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T19:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/470759\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T19:14:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T19:14:07","slug":"bettman-says-nhl-will-follow-iihf-lead-on-russia-belarus-for-2028-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/470759\/","title":{"rendered":"Bettman says NHL will follow IIHF lead on Russia, Belarus for 2028 World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"

The fate of Russia for the 2028 World Cup will lie in the hands of the IIHF.<\/p>\n

NHL commissioner Gary Bettman said Thursday the league would “follow what the international community” is doing regarding Russia and Belarus’ participation in the tournament, which is run by the league.<\/p>\n

To that end, IIHF president Luc Tardif said<\/a> he wants Russia and Belarus back in action “as soon as possible … because that means the world will be better.”<\/p>\n

Russia has been formally banned from competition by the IIHF, hockey’s international body, since 2022 in the wake of the country’s invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n

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

Russia was not included in the inaugural 4 Nations Face-Off last February, the first best-on-best international men’s hockey competition since 2014, which was the last time NHLers competed at the Olympics.<\/p>\n

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…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":470760,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-470759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=470759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470759\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/470760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=470759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=470759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=470759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}