Which Teams Can Make a Major Leap at the 2028 World Cup of Hockey?

After two consecutive feverish Februarys, we’re getting a break from best-on-best international hockey. But not a long one. The 4 Nations Face-Off in 2025 and 2026 Winter Olympics — which featured NHLers for the first time since 2014 — reminded us all how intense high-level international hockey can be. And, roughly 16 months from now, we’ll get another wonderful dose when the first World Cup of Hockey since 2016 takes place in February of 2028. With a two-year gap between Team USA’s gold medal showing at the ’26 Games and the next big international event, we want to examine which…