In place of the NHL’s hit-or-miss All-Star Weekend, the league and the NHLPA have teamed up to put on the 4 Nations Face-Off in February 2025. The round robin tournament will include NHL players from four countries — the United States, Canada, Sweden and Finland — and will be played in both Boston and Montreal across the seven-game slate.

The 4 Nations Face-Off in February will mark the first best-on-best men's hockey tournament in eight years and the first ever held one year before an Olympics. With NHL players expected to return to the Olympics in 2026 for the first time since 2014 ...

Each of the four countries in the 4 Nations Face-Off will have a 23-man roster that includes 13 forwards, seven defenseman and three goalies. Canada opens the tournament against Sweden on Feb. 12 at Bell Centre in Montreal (8 p.m. ET; TNT, SN, TVAS).