Last week the NHL and NHLPA announced that they had agreed to not move forward with another World Cup of Hockey in 2020. They instead will pursue a different international event at some point in the future.
The 2016 World Cup was an interesting tournament, with the inclusion of Team North America and Team Europe to fold, but it came off as a bit of a gimmick too. Without the NHL at the Olympics, no World Cup, and the IIHF World Championship taking place during the Stanley Cup playoffs, there isn’t really any best-on-best hockey going on right now which is really disappointing.