Guide to the 2025 4 Nations Face-Off – The Hockey Writers – 4 Nations Face-off

The NHL’s 4 Nations Face-Off is here as a way for the league to get back to best-on-best tournaments. The league has not participated in a tournament with the top players going head-to-head since the 2016 World Cup, where Canada took the gold medal. With the Olympics and World Cup not in the NHL’s docket for the past nine years, fans and players were missing out. Now, as a way to get back into the swing of things before the 2026 Olympics and 2028 World Cup, there will be the 4 Nations Face-Off, involving Team Canada, Team USA, Team Sweden, and Team Finland.

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Two cities, Montreal and Boston, are set to host the tournament games. With each team playing three preliminary games, the top two teams after the round-robin will face off in a championship game. The first three days of the tournament will take place at the Bell Centre in Montreal, hosting four games. The last two days, including the championship game, will be at TD Garden in Boston, for a total of three games.

4 Nations Face-Off Rosters