Hockey is coming to Jerry World.
The Dallas Stars will host the 2027 NHL Stadium Collection recreation at AT&T Stadium on Feb. 20, 2027. The sport will air on ABC. The announcement was made on ESPN’s “Monday Evening Countdown” forward of the Dallas Cowboys’ residence recreation towards the Arizona Cardinals.
No opponent was introduced for the Stars, however fellow Western Convention contenders such because the Colorado Avalanche and Vegas Golden Knights might be within the combine. The Stars have appeared in just one NHL outside recreation, internet hosting the 2020 Winter Basic at Cotton Bowl Stadium in Dallas. The official attendance for that 4-2 Stars’ victory over the Nashville Predators was 85,630, presently the third-largest crowd for an NHL outside recreation.
There have been discussions concerning the Stars taking part in that recreation at AT&T Stadium earlier than the Cotton Bowl was chosen because the venue.
“5 years in the past, the 2020 NHL Winter Basic was a celebration of the expansion and success of hockey within the Lone Star State, which was the third-highest attended Outside Recreation in League historical past. We now have little question that our upcoming Stadium Collection recreation might be met with the identical enthusiasm and fervour from our fanbase,” Dallas Stars proprietor and governor Tom Gaglardi mentioned. “We wish to thank NHL commissioner Gary Bettman, Dallas Cowboys proprietor, president and common supervisor Jerry Jones and the complete Jones household for his or her help in making this recreation a actuality. AT&T Stadium is likely one of the premier leisure venues on the planet and is the proper place to host our subsequent outside recreation.”
Although AT&T Stadium has hosted soccer, basketball, soccer and two WrestleManias, this would be the first hockey recreation performed within the 16-year-old stadium, which has a capability of over 80,000. It affords the NHL a climate-controlled surroundings for the Stadium Collection as a retractable-roof stadium.
The Stars have been one of many NHL’s most profitable groups in latest seasons, having made the Western Convention finals in three straight seasons. Sadly, that is the place their journey ended every time, dropping to the Golden Knights (2023) and the Edmonton Oilers twice (2024-25).
The NHL launched the Stadium Collection in 2014 to deliver outside hockey to soccer venues that may not work schedule-wise for a Winter Basic. The Stadium Collection had seen hockey performed at NFL venues, U.S. service academies and faculty soccer stadiums like Ohio Stadium, the place 94,751 watched the Columbus Blue Jackets defeat the Detroit Crimson Wings final March.
The subsequent Stadium Collection is scheduled for Feb. 1 at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Florida, that includes the Tampa Bay Lightning internet hosting the Boston Bruins.