A regular season in the NHL consists of 82 games - 41 at home and 41 away. But in 2017 the Colorado Avalanche and the Ottawa Senators played one of their home games on the road. For the first time in history an official NHL game was played outside of North America.
Distribution: NHL International & Viaplay
USA, Canada, Sweden
The NHL had visited other countries before for exhibition- and pre-season games, but in 2017 the league decided to up the ante by having Ottawa and Colorado face off in Sweden to play two regular season games.
NHL and Viaplay asked Katagrama to highlight the whole event with a 30 minute documentary. Besides covering the games and the teams on and off the ice during their week in Stockholm we also decided to focus on less obvious parts of the huge process to make the event happen. For example the arena managers rebuilding the rink to NHL regulation and equipment managers setting up shop in a new arena.
Director: Erik Stenborg