NHL Prods Return To Olympics With ‘4 Countries Go head to head’ In February 2025

The last time the NHL sent its players to the Olympics, in February of 2014, Auston Matthews was a 16-year-old from Arizona attempting to become famous in his most memorable season with the U.S. Public Group Advancement Program. Subsequent to missing almost three months of the early season because of a wrecked leg, he got once more into it in December of 2013.

Simultaneously, Quinn Hughes was 14, playing minor hockey in Toronto while his dad, Jim, was functioning as the overseer of player improvement with the Toronto Maple Leafs.

In February of 2026, NHL players are supposed to be back in Olympic rivalry in Italy subsequent to missing the last two Games. From Feb 12-20, 2025, as a get ready for the occasion, the NHL is holding its own global competition, named the ‘4 Countries Go head to head.’

In the midst of Russia’s continuous restriction from rivalry by the Worldwide Ice Hockey Organization and with just dynamic NHL players meeting all requirements to contend in this occasion, the association chose to go with a generally smaller configuration for its seven-game check up, which incorporates players just from Canada, the U.S., Sweden and Finland.

The organization will be a cooperative effort. The initial four games will be held in Montreal between Feb. 12-15. The last two will happen in Boston on Feb. 17.

Then, at that point, the title game will occur at Boston’s TD Nursery on Thursday, Feb. 20.

In the cooperative effort, unexpected demise 3-on-3 extra time will keep going for as long as 10 minutes, trailed by a shootout in the event that no objective is scored. In the event that the title game is tied following an hour, groups will play 5-on-5 unexpected passing in 20-minute time spans until an objective is scored, very much like in the Stanley Cup end of the season games.

During draft week in Las Vegas last month, the names of the initial six players for every one of the four nations were declared. Matthews and Hughes both got it done: