{"id":14968,"date":"2025-07-06T03:13:35","date_gmt":"2025-07-06T07:13:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/nhl-league-stars-will-play-in-the-2026-olympic-games\/"},"modified":"2025-07-06T03:13:35","modified_gmt":"2025-07-06T07:13:35","slug":"nhl-league-stars-will-play-in-the-2026-olympic-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nhl\/nhl-league-stars-will-play-in-the-2026-olympic-games\/","title":{"rendered":"NHL: League stars will play in the 2026 Olympic Games!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">NHL Ice Hockey Returns to the Olympics!<\/h2>\n\n\nZ\u00fcrich \u2013 The NHL, the NHL Players&#8217; Association (NHLPA), and international officials have formalized a long-awaited agreement to allow NHL players to participate in the 2026 Olympic Games, to be held in Milan-Cortina.\n\nThis agreement, initially announced last year, marks the return of NHL players to the Olympics for the first time since 2014. The collaboration between the league, the players&#8217; association, the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF), and the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has been fundamental in achieving this milestone.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Olympic participation will showcase the skill and talent of NHL players on an international stage. We are proud to collaborate with the IIHF, the NHLPA, and the IOC to bring the world&#8217;s best hockey players to the Olympic Games and make this happen in a way that benefits the game globally.<\/p><cite>Gary Bettman, NHL Commissioner<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nNHL Commissioner Gary Bettman expressed his enthusiasm for the return of the league&#8217;s players to the world&#8217;s most important international stage.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>International &#8220;best-on-best&#8221; tournaments like the Olympic Games provide an opportunity to create extraordinary moments for both our players and fans.<\/p><cite>Marty Walsh, NHLPA Executive Director<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nMarty Walsh, executive director of the NHLPA, added that the return to the Olympic Games is a momentous occasion for hockey, thanking the collaboration with the NHL, the IOC and the IIHF.\n\nLuc Tardif, IIHF president, called the agreement &#8220;a great step forward for our sport&#8221;.\n\nAfter months of negotiations, the details have been finalized, opening the door to the NHL&#8217;s participation in the 2030 Olympic Games, an agreement that had already been reached in February 2024.\n\nLast month, the 12 participating countries revealed the first six players of their Olympic rosters. The men&#8217;s ice hockey tournament at the 2026 Games is scheduled to take place from February 11 to 22.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NHL Ice Hockey Returns to the Olympics! Z\u00fcrich \u2013 The NHL, the NHL Players&#8217; Association (NHLPA), and international officials have formalized a long-awaited agreement to allow NHL players to participate in the 2026 Olympic Games, to be held in Milan-Cortina. This agreement, initially announced last year, marks the return of NHL players to the Olympics [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14969,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[662,454,631,604],"class_list":{"0":"post-14968","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-hockey","9":"tag-nhl","10":"tag-olympics","11":"tag-players"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14968\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}