TORONTO — Get comfy and fall hard for that best-on-best buzz because, barring a massive change in plans, it appears the World Cup of Hockey will be a cyclical event for the foreseeable future.
The league already is getting expressions of interest from parties hoping to latch on to the NHL/NHLPA-run spectacle — rebooted, re-imagined, re-branded after a 12-year absence — for its (probable) second instalment in 2020.
“There have been a whole lot of people who have been interested in participating (in a hosting capacity). And what we’ve told everyone is that after this one is over we’re going to take a hard look,” NHLPA executive director Donald Fehr said Friday afternoon at the swanky Fairmont Royal York hotel.