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Ottawa Citizen
22-07-2025
- Sport
- Ottawa Citizen
NHL, NHLPA announce content partnership with Italy's Serie A ahead of Olympics
Article content The NHL and NHLPA announced a content partnership with top-flight Italian soccer league Lega Serie A on Tuesday ahead of the 2026 Milan-Cortina Olympics. Article content NHL players will return to Olympic ice for the first time since 2014 when the men's hockey tournament begins Feb. 11 in Milan. Article content Article content The NHL-Serie A partnership involves multiple promotional activities. Article content Serie A stars and past greats will join NHL players for events during the NHL/NHLPA European player media tour in Milan on Aug. 22, one day before the 2025-26 season begins in Italy's top soccer league. Article content Article content NHL players, meanwhile, will visit the training grounds of several Serie A clubs and attend a match at Milan's San Siro stadium, home to AC Milan and Inter Milan. Article content Article content The NHL said a jersey exchange between Serie A greats Andrea Pirlo and Marco Materazzi, and New York Rangers centre Mika Zibanejad at Madison Square Garden in March sparked the 'first-of-its-kind' partnership between a North American pro league and European soccer league. Article content 'As a global sport with players from 21 countries, the NHL is thrilled to collaborate with Lega Serie A to create unique content that celebrates the intersection of hockey and soccer,' said Keith Wachtel, President, NHL Business, in a statement. 'With the Winter Olympics on the horizon, Milan will serve as a focal point for sports fans around the world, so we are delighted to take the opportunity to promote our top hockey players in the environments of the biggest sport in Italy. Article content
Edmonton Journal
22-07-2025
- Sport
- Edmonton Journal
NHL, NHLPA announce content partnership with Italy's Serie A ahead of Olympics
Article content The NHL and NHLPA announced a content partnership with top-flight Italian soccer league Lega Serie A on Tuesday ahead of the 2026 Milan-Cortina Olympics. Article content NHL players will return to Olympic ice for the first time since 2014 when the men's hockey tournament begins Feb. 11 in Milan. Article content Article content The NHL-Serie A partnership involves multiple promotional activities. Article content Serie A stars and past greats will join NHL players for events during the NHL/NHLPA European player media tour in Milan on Aug. 22, one day before the 2025-26 season begins in Italy's top soccer league. Article content Article content NHL players, meanwhile, will visit the training grounds of several Serie A clubs and attend a match at Milan's San Siro stadium, home to AC Milan and Inter Milan. Article content Article content The NHL said a jersey exchange between Serie A greats Andrea Pirlo and Marco Materazzi, and New York Rangers centre Mika Zibanejad at Madison Square Garden in March sparked the 'first-of-its-kind' partnership between a North American pro league and European soccer league. Article content 'As a global sport with players from 21 countries, the NHL is thrilled to collaborate with Lega Serie A to create unique content that celebrates the intersection of hockey and soccer,' said Keith Wachtel, President, NHL Business, in a statement. 'With the Winter Olympics on the horizon, Milan will serve as a focal point for sports fans around the world, so we are delighted to take the opportunity to promote our top hockey players in the environments of the biggest sport in Italy. Article content
Hamilton Spectator
22-07-2025
- Sport
- Hamilton Spectator
NHL, NHLPA announce content partnership with Italy's Serie A ahead of 2026 Olympics
TORONTO - The NHL and NHLPA announced a content partnership with top-flight Italian soccer league Lega Serie A on Tuesday ahead of the 2026 Milan-Cortina Olympics. NHL players will return to Olympic ice for the first time since 2014 when the men's hockey tournament begins Feb. 11 in Milan. The NHL-Serie A partnership involves multiple promotional activities. Serie A stars and past greats will join NHL players for events during the NHL/NHLPA European player media tour in Milan on Aug. 22, one day before the 2025-26 season begins in Italy's top soccer league. NHL players, meanwhile, will visit the training grounds of several Serie A clubs and attend a match at Milan's San Siro stadium, home to AC Milan and Inter Milan. The NHL said a jersey exchange between Serie A greats Andrea Pirlo and Marco Materazzi, and New York Rangers centre Mika Zibanejad at Madison Square Garden in March sparked the 'first-of-its-kind' partnership between a North American pro league and European soccer league. 'As a global sport with players from 21 countries, the NHL is thrilled to collaborate with Lega Serie A to create unique content that celebrates the intersection of hockey and soccer,' said Keith Wachtel, President, NHL Business, in a statement. 'With the Winter Olympics on the horizon, Milan will serve as a focal point for sports fans around the world, so we are delighted to take the opportunity to promote our top hockey players in the environments of the biggest sport in Italy. 'We look forward to working with Lega Serie A to deliver world-class events highlighting both leagues' history, heritage, and shared culture.' This report by The Canadian Press was first published July 22, 2025.
Winnipeg Free Press
16-07-2025
- Automotive
- Winnipeg Free Press
USA Bobsled and Skeleton signs endorsement deal with Honda through 2030 Olympics
USA Bobsled and Skeleton has entered into a multi-year endorsement deal with American Honda, one that will give the sliding sports federation financial and technical support going into both next winter's Milan-Cortina Olympics and the 2030 Games in the French Alps. The deal, announced Wednesday, has been in the works for some time. Honda — which becomes the official premier technology partner of the teams — will give USABS, among other things, access to its wind tunnel in Ohio for research and development purposes. Such access is crucial when determining optimal sled positioning and other aerodynamic factors in sports where one-hundredth of a second can be the difference between winning and losing. Eventually, the partnership will evolve into sled design as well. 'Long term, they'll be playing a role in helping us design bobsleds,' USABS CEO Aron McGuire told The Associated Press. 'We'll be looking at building four-man sleds initially. They will be providing the aerodynamic expertise and providing us insights, recommendations, into how we can best design a sled as it relates to other factors, like safety of the athletes sitting in the sled and the performance side of the design.' The teams will also have Acura logos on their sleds for all competitions through the 2030 Games. 'In sports where sleds can reach speeds of over 90 miles per hour and the difference between first and last can be measured in fractions of a second, our Honda engineers are eager to apply their engineering skills and racing background to the USABS programs,' said Larry Geise, the executive vice president of Honda Development & Manufacturing of America. Monday Mornings The latest local business news and a lookahead to the coming week. Financial specifics were not disclosed, but the deal is one of the more significant in USABS history. 'It's at the top of the cash partners that we've had,' McGuire said. The news comes at a key time for the programs, with the next Olympics just seven months away. The U.S. has legitimate medal hopes in bobsled and skeleton going into Milan-Cortina; Kaysha Love is the reigning women's monobob champion, women's pilots Kaillie Humphries Armbruster and Elana Meyers Taylor are the two most decorated female drivers in Olympic history, and the American duo of Austin Florian and Mystique Ro won a gold medal in the new mixed team skeleton discipline at the world championships earlier this year. ___ AP sports:
Yahoo
16-07-2025
- Automotive
- Yahoo
USA Bobsled and Skeleton signs endorsement deal with Honda through 2030 Olympics
FILE - Kaysha Love and Emily Renna, of the United States, speed down the track during the first run of the 2-woman bobsleigh, at the Bobsleigh World Cup in Innsbruck, Austria, Sunday, Jan. 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader, File) USA Bobsled and Skeleton has entered into a multi-year endorsement deal with American Honda, one that will give the sliding sports federation financial and technical support going into both next winter's Milan-Cortina Olympics and the 2030 Games in the French Alps. The deal, announced Wednesday, has been in the works for some time. Honda — which becomes the official premier technology partner of the teams — will give USABS, among other things, access to its wind tunnel in Ohio for research and development purposes. Advertisement Such access is crucial when determining optimal sled positioning and other aerodynamic factors in sports where one-hundredth of a second can be the difference between winning and losing. Eventually, the partnership will evolve into sled design as well. 'Long term, they'll be playing a role in helping us design bobsleds," USABS CEO Aron McGuire told The Associated Press. "We'll be looking at building four-man sleds initially. They will be providing the aerodynamic expertise and providing us insights, recommendations, into how we can best design a sled as it relates to other factors, like safety of the athletes sitting in the sled and the performance side of the design.' The teams will also have Acura logos on their sleds for all competitions through the 2030 Games. 'In sports where sleds can reach speeds of over 90 miles per hour and the difference between first and last can be measured in fractions of a second, our Honda engineers are eager to apply their engineering skills and racing background to the USABS programs," said Larry Geise, the executive vice president of Honda Development & Manufacturing of America. Advertisement Financial specifics were not disclosed, but the deal is one of the more significant in USABS history. 'It's at the top of the cash partners that we've had,' McGuire said. The news comes at a key time for the programs, with the next Olympics just seven months away. The U.S. has legitimate medal hopes in bobsled and skeleton going into Milan-Cortina; Kaysha Love is the reigning women's monobob champion, women's pilots Kaillie Humphries Armbruster and Elana Meyers Taylor are the two most decorated female drivers in Olympic history, and the American duo of Austin Florian and Mystique Ro won a gold medal in the new mixed team skeleton discipline at the world championships earlier this year. ___ AP sports:
