{"id":512550,"date":"2026-03-03T23:18:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T23:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/512550\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T23:18:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T23:18:07","slug":"nhl-nearing-decision-on-host-for-2028-world-cup-bettman-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/512550\/","title":{"rendered":"NHL nearing decision on host for 2028 World Cup, Bettman says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fans hoping to learn where the 2028 World Cup of Hockey will take place will have to exercise a bit of patience.<\/p>\n<p>In a press conference from Calgary on Tuesday, NHL commissioner Gary Bettman told reporters that a decision on a host location will be made \u201cin the not too distant future,\u201d but that the league isn\u2019t ready on a decision just yet.<\/p>\n<p>Bettman added that the NHL may have a decision within a \u201ccouple of weeks,\u201d as it continues to examine submitted bids, but did not want to give a firm timeline.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen the process is complete, and we\u2019re ready to make an announcement, we will,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Calgary is among the cities under consideration to host the 2028 showcase of best-on-best. Bettman took a tour with Flames ownership on Sunday, <a href=\"https:\/\/calgary.citynews.ca\/2026\/03\/02\/gary-bettman-heading-to-calgary-to-look-at-potential-world-cup-venue\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">visiting the franchise\u2019s new arena<\/a> that\u2019s currently under construction.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the timing of the commissioner\u2019s visit, he remained non-committal on Calgary\u2019s or any other city\u2019s viability to host the World Cup of Hockey in Feb. 2028.<\/p>\n<p>Slated to open in the fall of 2027, the $1.2 billion event centre in Calgary could be an ideal setting for some much-anticipated international hockey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fans hoping to learn where the 2028 World Cup of Hockey will take place will have to exercise&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":512551,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194293],"tags":[49,2798,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-512550","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-calgary","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-calgary","10":"tag-canada"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512550","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=512550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512550\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/512551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=512550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=512550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=512550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}