The National Hockey League [NHL] will bring two pre-season games to Australia later this year, the first time the United States-based league has ventured into the Southern Hemisphere.

The Los Angeles Kings and Arizona Coyotes will contest the pair of games at Melbourne's Rod Laver Arena -- which has a capacity of around 15,000 spectators -- on September 23 and 24, as part of the '2023 NHL Global Series'.