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November 3, 2025, 6:49 PM
The NHL goes to Jerry World for a hockey recreation.
The league introduced Monday that the Dallas Stars<\/a> will host the 2027 Stadium Collection on the residence of the NFL’s Cowboys<\/a> in Arlington, Texas. The opponent for the sport subsequent season at AT&T Stadium on Feb. 20, 2027, will likely be introduced at a later date.
\u201cOn the finish of the day, we now have to fill a stadium,\u201d NHL president of content material and occasions Steve Mayer informed The Related Press by telephone. \u201cWe\u2019ve by no means not crammed one. And we simply grew to become increasingly more assured that, if we went again, particularly to a really distinctive atmosphere \u2014 one of many coolest and largest and biggest stadiums on this planet \u2014 we expect we\u2019re going to get individuals\u2019s consideration.\u201d
That is set to be the second NHL recreation at a soccer stadium within the Dallas\u2013Fort Value metroplex after the Stars performed the Nashville Predators within the Winter Basic on the Cotton Bowl on Jan. 1, 2020. That drew a crowd of greater than 85,000.
“Fairly instantly we simply mentioned we\u2019ve bought to return quickly,” Mayer mentioned. \u201cWe had success past something we might have ever dreamed of. To fill the Cotton Bowl simply completely confirmed us that Dallas followers are into this, will are available droves and it was superior.\u201d
Conversations with the Cowboys continued over the previous a number of years, and the Stars made three consecutive journeys to the Western Convention ultimate. AT&T Stadium has a capability of 85,000 however can get previous 100,000 with standing room solely, placing the league’s document attendance of 105,491 from Michigan Stadium in 2014 inside attain, if every part comes collectively accurately.
“We\u2019re going into this with our eyes vast open, and that’s completely a risk,” Mayer mentioned. \u201cWe\u2019re very conscious of the capability, and standing room is a factor. It\u2019s truly distinctive to that stadium. I’d say that we might have an opportunity.\u201d
NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman mentioned Cowboys owner Jerry Jones<\/a> has been advocating for a recreation there for the reason that stadium opened in 2009. Jones known as it \u201cone other nice instance of the imaginative and prescient we\u2019ve all the time had for what AT&T Stadium may very well be past soccer.\u201d
This would be the third NHL outdoor-ish recreation since 2024. The Seattle Kraken hosted the Winter Basic that New Yr’s Day on the Mariners’ ballpark with a retractable roof, and the back-to-back defending champion Florida Panthers are set to face the New York Rangers on Jan. 2 on the Marlins’ stadium that gives the identical safety from the weather.
Mayer mentioned it has not been a aware choice but additionally added that it helps the two-week-plus rink-building course of get achieved with out climate interruptions.
“It simply takes that whole danger out of the equation,” Mayer mentioned. \u201cWe’re going to open the roof on recreation day. For us, that\u2019s a nonstarter.\u201d
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