NHL President Content material and Occasions Steve Mayer Hinted Dallas Cowboys Would Host Stadium Sequence Sport
The NHL introduced on ESPN, forward of Monday Night time Soccer, that the 2027 Stadium Series could be performed in Dallas, Texas, at AT&T Stadium on February 20, 2027.
As of now, the Dallas Stars would be the host workforce, as their opponent is unknown right now. Nonetheless, in case you have been paying consideration, little hints were dropped ahead of the season that “Jerry’s World” could be internet hosting an outside recreation.
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Throughout the NHL/NHLPA North American Participant Tour, Steve Mayer, NHL President, Content material and Occasions, joined Sirius XM NHL Community Radio with Dave Pagnotta, Dennis Bernstein, and Scott Laughlin. They had been discussing it out of doors video games and whether or not “Jerry’s World” would ever host one.
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Scott Laughlin: “Nicely, look, the Cotton Bowl has been accomplished earlier than, and I do know, Dave is a fellow Cowboys fan like I’m. You talked about Dallas. Ever been any discuss Steve with Jerry Jones about doing something on the huge stadium? Jerry’s World, as they name it, as a result of the Stars followers down there, the state of Texas had purchased a lot into hockey, and the Dallas Stars specifically through the years. How thrilling would that be, finally, to do one thing like that with 8090, there, we are saying 100,000 followers there.”
Steve Mayer: “That may be actually cool. Yeah, so we’ve had conversations. It’s attention-grabbing. After we went to the Cotton Bowl, we initially had conversations with the entire numerous stadiums within the Dallas space. At the moment, Jerry’s World, as you referred to he that they had a special enterprise mannequin that it simply didn’t jive with our enterprise mannequin.
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And a part of this can be a enterprise and so we then began speaking, as a part of the train to Cotton Bowl to the baseball stadium. And bear in mind at the moment, my recollection was it was the outdated baseball stadium they’ve since. So it didn’t work out. And after we talked to Cotton Bowl, the extra we talked, after which I ended up going to the Oklahoma-Texas Faculty soccer recreation, and I skilled it for myself. I used to be like, that is unimaginable.
However since then we’ve talked and that is how I spend my summer season. We go to stadiums and baseball, soccer, school soccer, and we simply look them over, discuss to the personnel which might be concerned, and resolve what’s the way forward for the out of doors video games.
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And now we have had conversations. I’m not going to take a seat right here and inform you in another way with not essentially Jerry Jones, however the of us that run that stadium. And if we’re to return to Dallas, I’d say that might be a really robust risk, that that might be the place we might play nicely.”
So Mr. Mayer dropped a bit of nugget again in September. With out saying it then, he was the NHL was going to carry an outside recreation in Dallas at Jerry’s World. That trace has grow to be a actuality.
The NHL is returning to Dallas for an outside recreation and AT&T Stadium, “The Home that Jerry Jones Constructed,” will host the 2027 Stadium Sequence.
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