Predators, Penguins to Play NHL Global Series in Sweden

The Nashville Predators and Pittsburgh Penguins will play in the 2025 NHL Global Series Sweden with a pair of regular season games at Avicii Arena in Stockholm on November 14 and November 16.

Stockholm has hosted the most NHL regular season games of any city outside North America, with next season’s two-game contest to raise that total to 18. The 2025 NHL Global Series will be the first NHL games played at Avicii Arena since its re-opening last month after a full year of renovations.

The 2025 NHL Global Series will be the 15th NHL season to include regular season games outside North America. Since 1997, the NHL has staged 46 regular-season games at venues outside North America. The 2025 NHL Global Series will be the 47th and 48th regular season games played overseas.

Sweden is one of the NHL’s most important global markets, accounting for the highest representation of players of any country outside North America (9.7 percent of NHL players this season were born in Sweden).

The Penguins will play abroad for the first time since 2008, when they faced the Ottawa Senators in the NHL Premiere Series in Stockholm. The 2025 NHL Global Series will mark only the second time Sidney Crosby has played overseas in a Penguins uniform in what will be his 21st NHL season.

The Predators last played abroad in the 2022 NHL Global Series Czechia when they faced the San Jose Sharks in two regular-season games in Prague. The Predators roster includes Swedish star and franchise goals leader Filip Forsberg, as well as fellow countrymen Andreas Englund and Adam Wilsby.