{"id":641199,"date":"2026-05-01T17:13:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T17:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/641199\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T17:13:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T17:13:08","slug":"canada-wont-play-in-2026-spengler-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/641199\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada won’t play in 2026 Spengler Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hockey Canada won’t be as busy next Christmas season.<\/p>\n

The Canadian national men’s hockey team won’t participate in the Spengler Cup in Davos, Switzerland this year, Hockey Canada announced<\/a> Friday.<\/p>\n

Hockey Canada said its long-term agreement expired after the 2025 tournament and a new deal could not be reached in time.<\/p>\n

Canada has won the event 16 times since 1984, though its last win was in 2019.<\/p>\n

The event traditionally features European club teams competing against Canada, which has tended to use European-based, Canadian-born pros for the majority of its roster.<\/p>\n

Last year, a U.S. Collegiate Selects team competed and finished runner-up to HC Davos. The same NCAA-based squad has been invited back this year.<\/p>\n

“The Spengler Cup is a special event, and we are grateful for our many years of partnership with the organizing committee and the fan support in Davos,” Hockey Canada said in a statement. “Hockey Canada and the organizing committee continue to engage in discussions around future participation in the Spengler Cup, and we look forward to the future of this prestigious tournament.”<\/p>\n

The Spengler Cup overlaps with the world junior championship during what is a busy time for international hockey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hockey Canada won’t be as busy next Christmas season. The Canadian national men’s hockey team won’t participate in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":641200,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-641199","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\/641199","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=641199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641199\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/641200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=641199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=641199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=641199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}