Saturday, May 25, 2024

New CHL event coming in 2025-26?

Is a new event coming to the Canadian Hockey League calendar in 2025-26?

During the second intermission of Friday's Memorial Cup opener on TSN, Darren Dreger reported that the CHL is looking to add a third national event, joining the Top Prospects Game (whatever that looks like in the future) and the Memorial Cup.

Dreger discusses the event – and what the NCAA's latest court rulings mean for the CHL – beginning at the 1:04 mark of the video below.


Dreger indicated that it will be some sort of in-season event – but what that event looks like seems to still be in the ideation phase.

It's a bit surprising it's taken the CHL this long to add a third national event with the Canada-Russia Series on hiatus. You'd have to think TSN, the league's television rights holder, would also like a third event.

It was reported in January that next year's Top Prospects Game could have a new format.

I've written about this before, but the CHL has to find a way to get the league's best players (and/or teams) facing each other during the season. Whether that be creating Memorial Cup "qualifiers," creating inter-league play or, at minimum, some kind of national all-star event, something needs to be done to make these matchups happen.

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