“Can’t wait” – 2022 NHL Global Series featuring Predators vs Sharks, Avalanche vs Blue Jackets

“Can’t wait” – 2022 NHL Global Series featuring Predators vs Sharks, Avalanche vs Blue Jackets

2022 NHL Global Series

The Nashville Predators, San Jose Sharks, Colorado Avalanche, and Columbus Blue Jackets are going to participate in the 2022 National Hockey League Global Series and the Global Series Challenge as announced by the League on Thursday. The 2022-23 regular season will begin between the San Jose Sharks and the Nashville Predators.

Their match will be held at 02 Arena in Prague on October 7th and 8th. The following month, the faceoff between the Colorado Avalanche and Columbus Blue Jackets will take place at Tampere, Finland on November 4 and 5 at Nokia Arena. There will be 2 exhibition games and 4 regular-season games played in 4 cities outside of North America next season.

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2022 NHL Global Series teams‘ face-off begins

2022 NHL Global Series
2022 NHL Global Series

Since 2008, 02 Arena in Prague has to hold 5 NHL regular-season games, the most recent being on October 4, 2019, where the Philadelphia Flyers overtook the Chicago Blackhawks 4-3. Sharks forward, Thomas Hertl mentioned,

“I can’t wait for the experience”. “We will play in the building that I started to play pro hockey in. I used to go to watch hockey. And now I’ll be playing an NHL game.”

The Predators and Sharks will hold their respective training camps in Europe and play a preseason game against a European team. The Predators are going to face off SC Bern on October 5 in Switzerland. While the Sharks will be playing Eisbaren Berlin in Germany on October 4th as mentioned on theathletic.com. 

The games in Tampere will be the first two games in the NHL to start off in the city which is the hometown of Blue Jackets forward, Patrik Laine, and general manager Jarmo Kekalainen.

“What’s different here for North American guys, they get to play in their hometowns but for Europeans it’s pretty rare that we get that opportunity, so it’s pretty sweet,”

Whereas, Tomas Hertl, Sharks commented,

“For guys [who have] never played in Europe, it’s a great experience”. “I love playing in Europe. You score a goal, the whole arena will yell your name. It’s a pretty cool experience, especially when you’re starting pro hockey.”

The season will be opening with a blast and it will be pretty interesting to see which team catches up to who.

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