{"id":822933,"date":"2026-03-13T11:47:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T11:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/822933\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T11:47:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T11:47:12","slug":"nhl-holding-first-hockey-day-in-germany-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/822933\/","title":{"rendered":"NHL holding first Hockey Day in Germany festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-events-and-attractions \">The NHL is holding its first-ever Hockey Day in Germany on Friday and Saturday in D\u00fcsseldorf as part of the league\u2019s annual series of Hockey Day celebrations in Europe. The event will culminate Saturday with a screening of a European prime-time broadcast of Ducks-Senators, which features German Olympian and Senators C <b>Tim St\u00fctzle<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-events-and-attractions \">Other programming includes photo opportunities with the Stanley Cup, the NHL Global Fan Tour with 20 different interactive hockey-themed activities, a panel discussion presented by Sky Sports featuring German NHL alumni <b>Christian Ehrhoff<\/b> and <b>Christoph Schubert<\/b>, and a live pregame show.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-events-and-attractions \">Germany has become a priority international market for the NHL in recent years, aided by the recent rise of top talent from the country, such as St\u00fctzle, Oilers C <b>Leon Draisaitl<\/b> and Red Wings D <b>Moritz Seider<\/b>. The league has not played a regular-season game in the country since 2011 but has since sent teams to play exhibitions against German clubs in 2018, 2019, 2022 and 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-events-and-attractions \">This year\u2019s Hockey Day series also includes stops in Sweden (Feb. 27-28), Czechia (March 6-7) and Finland (March 27-28).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NHL is holding its first-ever Hockey Day in Germany on Friday and Saturday in D\u00fcsseldorf as part&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":822934,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5310],"tags":[2000,299,1824,15868,522,13828],"class_list":["post-822933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-germany","tag-eu","tag-europe","tag-germany","tag-hockey","tag-international","tag-nhl"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116221709198247188","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=822933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822933\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/822934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=822933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=822933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=822933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}