The NHL is going to Jerry World for a hockey game.The league announced Monday that the Dallas Stars will host the 2027 Stadium Series at the home of the NFL’s Cowboys in Arlington, Texas. The opponent for the game next season at AT&T Stadium on Feb. 20, 2027, will be announced at a later date.“At the end of the day, we have to fill a stadium,” NHL president of content and events Steve Mayer told The Associated Press by phone. “We’ve never not filled one. And we just became more and more confident that, if we went back, especially to a very unique environment — one of the coolest and biggest and greatest stadiums in the world — we think we’re going to get people’s attention.”This is set to be the second NHL game at a football stadium in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex after the Stars played the Nashville Predators in the Winter Classic at the Cotton Bowl on Jan. 1, 2020. That drew a crowd of more than 85,000.”Pretty immediately we just said we’ve got to go back soon,” Mayer said. “We had success beyond anything we could have ever dreamed of. To fill the Cotton Bowl just absolutely showed us that Dallas fans are into this, will come in droves and it was awesome.”Conversations with the Cowboys continued over the past several years, and the Stars made three consecutive trips to the …
