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Associated Press
Jul 2, 2025, 10:49 AM ET
ZURICH -- The NHL, NHLPA and planetary officials connected Wednesday finalized a long-ago agreed-to woody to nonstop players to the 2026 Milan-Cortina Olympics.
The league, union, International Ice Hockey Federation and International Olympic Committee confirmed the information of NHL players astatine the games for the archetypal clip since 2014. The groups negotiated the statement and announced it initially past year.
IIHF president Luc Tardif called it "a large measurement guardant for our sport."
The last touches took clip to fig retired aft officials insisted for months they were not acrophobic astir the deficiency of a signed document. The woody opens the doorway for NHL information to proceed successful 2030, thing that had besides been agreed to successful February 2024.
Last month, the 12 participating countries unveiled the archetypal six players connected their Olympic rosters. The men's hockey tourney astatine the 2026 Games is scheduled to tally from Feb. 11-22.
