The 4 Nations Face-Off was a massive success for not just the NHL, but the game of hockey as a whole.
But NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman isn't sure the tournament will be making a return during the 2025-26 season.
Making an appearance on "The Rich Eisen Show," Bettman explained why the league will have to think long and hard about how the tournament would fit into next year’s schedule due to the Winter Olympics and World Cup of Hockey also being played.
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"The success has been so quick and overwhelming," Bettman said. "We’ve got a lot of things to consider and sort out, including what our All-Star game looks like going forward. But, look, it was all good."
The 4 Nations Face-Off was played in place of the traditional All-Star Game this year, and it featured world teams from the United States, Canada, Sweden and Finland.
Bettman called it a "quick appetizer" for the other international hockey that will be played in the coming years. The Winter Olympics in Milan, Italy, will kick off in 2026, and the World Cup of Hockey will return for the first time since 2016 in 2028 and will continue every four years afterward.
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The NHL previously didn’t allow its players to participate in the last two Winter Olympics. But the league will again allow its players to do so, starting next year in Milan.
In terms of the World Cup of Hockey, Bettman said the goal is to "do a full World Cup, like you see in soccer." The tournament will be in Europe as well as North America.
So, while Bettman said he wasn’t sure if the 4 Nations Face-Off would be back, he told Eisen that he was asking "the absolute right question."
"I don’t have all the right answers yet," Bettman continued.
The 4 Nations Face-Off was a tremendous success, especially considering how dull sports fans have found some All-Star Games, especially in the NHL and NBA in recent years.
There was a true sense of pride from all four countries, including the championship final between Team USA and Team Canada, which ultimately ended with Connor McDavid scoring the game-winning goal in overtime.
Because of the success, hockey fans believed it only made sense for the league to continue building upon the inaugural tournament.
Bettman and the rest of his high-ranking executives will work to see if there is a solution that keeps the tournament from being a one-off moving forward.
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INDIANAPOLIS – It's a different time in America and the idea that the Philadelphia Eagles would skip another trip to the White House to celebrate their Super Bowl victory with President Donald Trump isn't the reality we're in anymore.
That was the case in 2018.
Not in 2025.
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The Eagles, winners of their second Super Bowl in seven years after beating the Kansas City Chiefs earlier this month, would love to visit Trump this time around.
"We would be honored to visit the White House," a club source told OutKick. "It's one of the things we had looked forward to doing, and we look forward to receiving the invitation."
That's the thing: The White House has yet to extend the invite.
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Seems streamlining a bloated government, saving billions, trying to broker peace in the Middle East and Ukraine and rooting for the USA hockey team takes up a lot of time. But the invite will surely come, and this time it will be accepted.
There were rumors and a false report from earlier this month that the Eagles had voted against making the trip.
OutKick founder Clay Travis put out that fire Monday morning.
That report seemed plausible because the Eagles and Trump had failed to come to terms on a visit after they beat the Patriots in the Super Bowl in 2018. Amid the kneeling controversy, several players voted not to attend.
The plan then had been to send a smaller contingent of players for the ceremony, but the visit was eventually canceled.
Then the White House rescinded the invitation.
In a statement from the White House at the time, the situation had been described as the Eagles players disagreeing "with their President because he insists that they proudly stand for the National Anthem, hand on heart, in honor of the great men and women of our military and the people of our country."
So that trip never happened.
But this is a new day in America, folks.
Well, feels that way for some folks. Black, Hispanic and other minorities voted for Trump in record numbers in the last election.
There is no kneeling for the anthem controversy going on right now.
And there is hope an economy that hurt a lot of people the past four years under Joe Biden – including a lot of people blue cities such as Philadelphia – can be fixed.
The Florida Panthers became the first pro team to visit the White House since Trump began his second term to celebrate their 2024 Stanley Cup victory.
And Tiger Woods, a 2020 Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient, has recently spent time with Trump as well.
Trump, we believe, is a big-time sports fan. He attended the Super Bowl game the Eagles won. And he could be the most sports-minded president in memory.
So, now that the Eagles have signaled they'll attend, you better believe Trump will issue the invite.
It should be something to see ardent Democrat party supporter Jeffrey Lurie, the Eagles owner, gift Trump with an Eagles jersey.
Cats and dogs getting along.
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Longtime Cleveland Guardians owner Larry Dolan has died at age 94, the team announced Monday.
The Dolan family is the longest-tenured owner in franchise history, and its patriarch is a lifelong Clevelander who influenced his community both on and off the field over the years.
"We are saddened by the loss of our Dad, but lucky to have him as part of our lives as long as we did," Dolan’s son, chair and CEO Paul Dolan, said in a statement. "He was a loving husband, father and grandfather who was passionate about his family, work, our community and his love of our local sports teams, including owning the Cleveland Guardians."
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The Guardians added a video to its announcement of Dolan’s death, saying "Cleveland sadly lost one of its own today."
"Born in Cleveland Heights in 1931, Lawrence J. Dolan invested his entire life in Greater Cleveland and impacted our community on so many levels," the narrator says over a montage of Dolan pictures. "From his service to our country as a first lieutenant in the United States Marines, his many philanthropic acts in kindness, his career in law, business, education and sports, many benefited from his engagement, influence and passion, especially in the world of sports."
Dolan was a multi-sport star at Saint Ignatius High School, playing both running back and defensive back on the football team and starring as a catcher on the baseball diamond.
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"He was blessed to realize two dreams [of] almost every Cleveland athlete of his generation: to play on the field at Cleveland Stadium, where his boyhood idol, Lou Boudreau, starred, and to own one of our city’s professional sports teams," the narrator continues.
"In February 2000, he purchased his beloved hometown baseball team. We are forever grateful for his passion and supporting the Northeast Ohio community and the Cleveland Guardians organization."
MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred also released a statement on Dolan, expressing his condolences to the family and organization.
"I am saddened by the passing of Cleveland native Larry Dolan, whose family's quarter-century ownership has made their hometown team a consistent winner and a staple of their community," Manfred wrote in a statement. "Larry was a lifelong baseball fan who served our country as a First Lieutenant in the United States Marines. He strongly believed in mentoring young people and using the Guardians as a way to impact Greater Cleveland."
Dolan purchased his hometown team for "323 million from Richard Jacobs, and he saw Cleveland post 14 winning seasons and nine trips to the postseason since then."
In 2016, they reached the World Series as the American League pennant winners but fell to the Chicago Cubs at home in a thrilling game.
Paul Dolan ultimately took over as the primary owner of the franchise in 2013, eventually overseeing the team's name change to Guardians in 2021.
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A scary moment occurred in Kent, Indiana, as a bus carrying the Indiana University Indianapolis men’s basketball team caught fire on the way back from a road game on Saturday.
The team was returning from its game against Northern Kentucky when a mechanical issue caused the bus to catch fire.
The entire team and staff evacuated the bus safely, according to a post from IU Indy Athletics on X. The post also mentioned another bus was en route at the time to pick them up for the trip back to Indianapolis.
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Photos were provided to Fox News Digital by IU Indy Athletics, which showed the bus completely burnt and charred from the flames that engulfed it in the middle of the highway.
Another photo showed bellowing black smoke rising from the bus, which caused some obvious traffic on the highway.
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The Jaguars fell to the Norse, 71-67, in Highland, Kentucky, before the ride home.
IU Indy is 9-20 overall on the year (5-13 in conference play). They’ve had a rough go of late, losing four of its last five games.
Only two games remain in the regular season, both of which will be at home in Indianapolis.
They will face Robert Morris this Thursday at 6:30 p.m.
Their final home game of the season, which will also be Senior Day, will be against Wright State on Saturday afternoon at 2:30 p.m.
The Horizon League Tournament, the conference in which the Jaguars play, begins on March 4.
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