{"id":40325,"date":"2019-01-17T13:54:44","date_gmt":"2019-01-17T18:54:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=40325"},"modified":"2020-12-26T16:36:57","modified_gmt":"2020-12-26T21:36:57","slug":"nhl-nhlpa-announce-no-world-cup-of-hockey-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2019\/01\/17\/nhl-nhlpa-announce-no-world-cup-of-hockey-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"NHL, NHLPA Announce No World Cup of Hockey 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The NHL and NHL Players Association have announced that there will be no World Cup of Hockey in 2020. Both sides made the announcement on Wednesday after a meeting.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">NHL statement regarding today\u2019s meeting with the NHLPA: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ciNYW7knDj\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/ciNYW7knDj<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NHL Public Relations (@NHLPR) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NHLPR\/status\/1085680622977380353?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">January 16, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h1>No World Cup of Hockey 2020<\/h1>\n<p>The league and the players association have run the international event three times in the past. World Cups were held in the 1996, 2004 and 2016.<\/p>\n<p>The two sides were optimistic in hosting a World Cup of Hockey but couldn\u2019t realistically come up with a date for a 2020 version. The NHL and NHLPA both released separate statements online with the hope of a tournament later.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe players are focused on finding the proper time to schedule the World Cup of Hockey within the context of an overall international hockey calendar,\u201d the NHLPA <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NHLPA\/status\/1085680688911867904\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">added<\/a>. \u201cWhile we and the league have discussed the possibility of holding the next World Cup in September 2020, we jointly concluded that it is unrealistic to expect that preparation for the event would be completed in time. We look forward to continuing our discussions with the league.\u201d<\/p>\n<h1>What if Means for The Future<\/h1>\n<p>This is likely a bad omen as both sides are preparing for a lockout. Both sides can opt out of the current collective bargaining agreement in Sept. 15, 2020 It would be the fourth work stoppage since the 1994-95 season. The current deal goes until 2022.<\/p>\n<p>The league and the NHLPA have held informal talks over the last few weeks. However, they haven\u2019t been able to ensure labour peace for the near future.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/russianmachineneverbreaks.com\/2019\/01\/16\/nhl-and-nhlpa-announce-2020-world-cup-of-hockey-wont-happen\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Current issues between the two sides<\/a> include players escrow payments and Olympic participation. The players love participating in these international tournaments.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s hope this is a temporary setback and not a precursor to another work stoppage.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2016\/09\/600649960.jpg\" alt=\"\">Team Russia&#8217;s forward Nikolay Kulemin (L) and Team Czech Republic&#8217;s <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/j\/jordami01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Michal Jordan<\/a> i<\/strong>n action during the World Cup of Hockey pre-tournament game between Russia and Czech Republic at the Yubileiny Palace in St. Petersburg (Photo by Igor Russak\/NurPhoto via Getty Images)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NHL and NHL Players Association have announced that there will be no World Cup of Hockey in 2020. Both sides made the announcement on Wednesday after a meeting. NHL statement regarding today\u2019s meeting with the NHLPA: pic.twitter.com\/ciNYW7knDj &mdash; NHL Public Relations (@NHLPR) January 16, 2019 No World Cup of Hockey 2020 The league and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2352,"featured_media":1073,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[304,34],"tags":[3882,5738,2569,955,7081,46],"class_list":["post-40325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-hockey","category-news","tag-2020-world-cup-of-hockey","tag-hockey-news","tag-news","tag-nhl-news","tag-winter-olympics","tag-world-cup-of-hockey"],"modified_by":"Dan Mount, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2352"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40325\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}