List of international ice hockey competitions featuring NHL players
- List of international ice hockey competitions featuring NHL players
The following is a list of international ice hockey competitions where National Hockey League players have been able to participate.
Summit Series
The Summit Series was an eight game challenge series between the Soviet National Team and a Canadian team made up of NHL hockey players. No World Hockey Association players were included in the event. Two years later, the World Hockey Association competed in the 1974 Summit Series and were defeated by the Soviets, but with no NHLers. There were however, some former NHLers playing for the WHA in the series.
Challenge Cup 1979
Olympics
In 1998, 2002 and 2006 the NHL has had a break in the season to allow its players to participate in the Olympics.
IIHF World Championships
Since 1977 there has been no limit to how many NHL players countries can send to the IIHF World Championships, but the tournament is usually played during the NHL playoffs. Because of the NHL lockout starting in 2004, all NHL players were available to participate in the 2005 Men's World Ice Hockey Championships. Many players did however not participate because they had not played for a full season, and were therefore not in "game shape".
ee also
* International Ice Hockey Federation
* National Hockey League
* Ice Hockey World Championships
* NHL Challenge
External links
* [http://www.hhof.com/html/GamesSummarySS.shtml Hockey Hall of Fame's Summary of Super Series]
* [http://tlh.evcco.com/ Top Level Hockey World Rankings]
* [http://www.geocities.com/canadavsrussia Canada Versus the Soviet Union] The heyday of the battle for world hockey supremacy (1972-1987)
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