In October of 1997, the Vancouver Canucks and Anaheim Ducks kicked off the NHL Global Series with back-to-back games in front of 10,500 spectators at the Yoyogi Arena in Tokyo, Japan. Since that debut contest — which was won for the Canucks by Pavel Bure — there have been 45 other international regular-season contests, spanning six countries, nine cities and two continents.

That's soon to be 47, as the Pittsburgh Penguins and Nashville Predators are headed across the pond to Stockholm, Sweden for the 2025-26 iteration of the Global Series . The cross-conference foes will do battle at Avicii Arena, once on Friday and again on Sunday, before returning to North America the following week. Filip Forsberg will lead the charge for the Preds, while Erik Karlsson is the lone healthy Swede on

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