The NHL and NHLPA announced in separate releases Wednesday that there will be no World Cup of Hockey in 2020.
Both the league and the players’ union have been meeting — last week in Las Vegas and this week in Toronto — to try and ensure labor peace in 2020 but were unable to come to a quick agreement.
Eleven months after the World Cup of Hockey concluded, NHL teams are now paying players their share of the profits.
Wednesday, TSN’s Rick Westhead reported that the 184 players who participated in the tournament were paid $86k each. Meanwhile, the NHL players who did not play in the tournament but spent all 186 days on an NHL roster last season pocketed $10k. Players who were not on an NHL roster for the entire season received a pro-rated amount.
The NHL and NHLPA evenly split the $44 million total profit. The Hockey News’ Ken Campbell reports that of the $22 million the NHLPA received, 70 percent went to players who played in the World Cup of Hockey.
Thursday night, Team Canada became the 2016 World Cup of Hockey champions. America’s Hat defeated Philipp Grubauer and Team (part of) Europe, 2-1, winning the best-of-three championship series 2-0.
Washington Capitals goaltender Braden Holtby served as Team Canada’s third goaltender and did not receive any playing time during the tournament. Caps Head Coach Barry Trotz was an assistant under Mike Babcock.
Team Russia was ousted by Team Canada in the semi-finals of the World Cup of Hockey this past weekend. Hockey players Sidney Crosby and Alex Ovechkin both played in that game. Several sporting news outlets noticed this fact and, deciding that the world hasn’t had enough of this particular story, rained down the takes.
One such story comes from Pierre LeBrun, ESPN’s NHL columnist and TSN Hockey insider. LeBrun beats this dead horse into glue while also getting some nifty anonymous quotes from some GMs and coaches who do not like Ovechkin one bit.
By Chris Cerullo 3 years ago
Team Europe just beat Team Sweden 3-2 in one of the biggest upsets of the tournament. Team Europe will now advance to play Team Canada in the World Cup of Hockey finals.
3:43 into overtime, Tomas Tatar scored his second goal of the game. Team Europe celebrated by engaging in one giant hockey hug in corner.
And then they began to jump up and down. It was a thing.
Centering Sweden’s first line, Nicklas Backstrom has been fantastic in the World Cup of Hockey. Backstrom leads Sweden in points and on Sunday against Team Europe, Backstrom scored again.
Team Russia and Team Canada faced off this evening in the World Cup of Hockey semifinals. Despite the final 5-3 loss, Team Russia took a 2-1 lead at the end of the second period thanks to Evgeny Kuznetsov.
By Elyse Bailey 3 years ago
Filip Forsberg is a weapon on the ice. In just two seasons in the NHL, he’s become one of the league’s most prolific goal-scorers, with 33 tallies last year and 26 in his rookie campaign.
Now the newly minted 22-year-old has been compared to Alex Ovechkin, one of the greatest scorers of all-time. It’s just one more stab in back for Caps fans by reporters who refuse to forget Forsberg’s trade for Martin Erat in 2013 by former Caps general manager George McPhee. Oh wait.
“He reminds me of playing with Alex with his quick release,” Nicklas Backstrom, who centers Ovechkin and has played with him his entire NHL career, told Dan Rosen of NHL.com on Friday. “He loves shooting the puck. He loves to go to the net. He loves creating stuff. In that way he reminds me of Ovi.”
By Chris Gordon 3 years ago
Russia defeated Finland 3-0 on Thursday and advanced to the World Cup of Hockey semifinals where they’ll play Canada.
In the front row of Air Canada Center, Alex Ovechkin was rooted on by four special Caps jersey-wearing fans, two of which had to go to great lengths to make it to the game.
Team Finland and Team Russia will face off in the World Cup of Hockey on Thursday at 3:00 p.m in Toronto. Finland has already been eliminated after Team North America beat Team Sweden 4-3 in overtime with that absolutely gorgeous goal from Nathan MacKinnon, but for Patrik Laine this game will be another chance to face his idol and our treasure, Caps forward Alex Ovechkin.
By Elyse Bailey 3 years ago
