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The National Hockey League (NHL) and the National Hockey League Players' Association (NHLPA), in conjunction with Live Nation, today announced plans for the 2022 NHL Global Series and 2022 NHL Global Series Challenge, which will feature the Colorado Avalanche, Columbus Blue Jackets, Nashville Predators and San Jose Sharks.

The Avalanche and Blue Jackets will face off in a pair of regular-season games at Nokia Arena in Tampere, Finland, on Friday, Nov. 4 and Saturday, Nov. 5.
Tickets to the 2022 NHL Global Series and 2022 NHL Global Series Challenge will go on sale to the public at the dates and times listed below. Ticket sale opportunities are available on a first-come, first-served basis, while supplies last.
Tickets and VIP hospitality packages to the Nov. 4 and Nov. 5 NHL Global Series games between the Colorado Avalanche and Columbus Blue Jackets at Nokia Arena in Tampere, Finland, will go on sale at 10 a.m. EET on Friday, April 29 at
LINK
. Tickets to Regular-Season Games in Tampere Available for Purchase on Friday, April 29.
The 2022 NHL Global Series will mark the ninth season overall that the NHL has traveled to Europe to play regular-season games. These games reward the legions of loyal and passionate fans in Europe that enjoy live NHL games available via international broadcast and media partners. The NHL's biggest stars are also featured across numerous social media platforms and on NHL.com in nine languages for the League's international fans. There have been 28 regular-season NHL games played in Europe. To date, there have been five NHL regular-season games played in the Czech Republic, which have all been played at O2 Arena in Prague. This year's games in Finland will mark the first NHL regular-season games to ever be played in Tampere.
The NHL is a global League, with more than 30 percent of NHL players this season having been born outside of North America. All four clubs feature a number of international stars on their rosters, including natives of the countries they are visiting.
The Blue Jackets and Avalanche games in Finland will be played in the home country of Mikko Rantanenand Artturi Lehkonen of the Avalanche, as well as Tampere native Patrik Laine and Joonas Korpisalo of the Blue Jackets and Blue Jackets General Manager Jarmo Kekalainen.
Colorado traveled to Stockholm for the 2017 NHL Global Series, where they were defeated by the Ottawa Senators in two games (Ottawa 4, Colorado 3 (OT) on Nov. 10, 2017; Ottawa 4, Colorado 3 on Nov. 11, 2017). For a complete list of NHL regular-season games played outside North America,
click here
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More information on the 2022 NHL Global Series and 2022 NHL Global Series Challenge will be announced when available on
NHL.com/fi
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NHL.com/cs
and
NHL.com/de
and international social media accounts

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