David Pastrnak Plans To Boycott The Next Major NHL Event
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The NHL officially announced a new special tournament to be held next year in lieu of the All-Star weekend. However, not everyone feels welcome with the decision.
NHL Announces Four Nations Tournament For 2025 Season
The league has been wanting to bring back some kind of regular international competition for some time now. Given recent geopolitical issues though, there has been significant difficulties in putting something together. Over the All-Star weekend however, the league finally announced a new four nations tournament to be held next year.
This new event will replace the All-Star game. This is not a terrible idea as the NHL All-Star weekend has always been a relatively minor event compared to those of other leagues.
However, not everyone is happy with this change.
Pastrnak Not Interested In NHL's Four Nations Tournament
The four countries represented in the event are the USA, Canada, Finland, and Sweden. However, the NHL has many players from various countries in Europe including Czechia, Switzerland, Latvia, Germany, and Russia, among others. Players from these countries obviously will not be able to participate in the tournament, leaving out a significant chunk of NHL players, including Bruins superstar David Pastrnak. The forward revealed his thoughts about the event at the All-Star weekend.
"It's a huge disappointment. I don't know much I can say. Definitely not happy about it. I understand that it's a quick turnaround. It's next year. They probably didn't have much time to make it a bigger tournament. But Czech isn't there. So it's always a lot of players left out, so I'm not gonna watch the tournament, to be honest. So just happy that the Olympics got accepted. Yeah, [it] definitely stings a little bit."
Pasta and the rest of his countrymen will just have to wait until 2026 where they will be able to participate in the Olympics for the first time since 2014. Hopefully then the players left out of the four nations event will be able to get a little revenge.
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