NHL President Content material and Occasions Steve Mayer Hinted Dallas Cowboys Would Host Stadium Collection Sport
The NHL introduced on ESPN, forward of Monday Evening 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 staff, as their opponent is unknown presently. Nonetheless, when you have been paying consideration, little hints were dropped ahead of the season that “Jerry’s World” could be internet hosting an outside sport.
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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 outside video games and whether or not “Jerry’s World” would ever host one.
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Scott Laughlin: “Properly, look, the Cotton Bowl has been executed 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 large 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 will be actually cool. Yeah, so we’ve had conversations. It’s attention-grabbing. Once 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 they’d a unique enterprise mannequin that it simply didn’t jive with our enterprise mannequin.
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And a part of it is a enterprise and so we then began speaking, as a part of the train to Cotton Bowl to the baseball stadium. And keep in mind at the moment, my recollection was it was the outdated baseball stadium they’ve since.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 School soccer sport, 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 time. We go to stadiums and baseball, soccer, faculty soccer, and we simply look them over, discuss to the personnel which might be concerned, and determine what’s the way forward for the outside video games.
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And we have now 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 might say that may be a really sturdy chance, that that may be the place we’d play effectively.”
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 sport in Dallas at Jerry’s World. That trace has grow to be a actuality.
The NHL is returning to Dallas for an outside sport and AT&T Stadium, “The Home that Jerry Jones Constructed,” will host the 2027 Stadium Collection.
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