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NHL won't participate in 2018 Olympic Games

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The NHL's refusal to shut down it's regular season for the Winter Olympics
New York - AFP

The National Hockey League announced that it will not shut down it's regular season to allow top players to compete at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea.
The NHL had sent players to the past five Winter Olympics, starting with the Nagano Games in 1998, interrupting it's regular season to do so.
But the break was unpopular with club owners, and the league said its attempts to negotiate a deal with other interested parties including the International Olympic Committee, the International Ice Hockey Federation and the NHL Players' Association had failed.
"A number of months have now passed and no meaningful dialogue has materialized," the league said in a statement. "Instead, the IOC has now expressed the position that the NHL's participation in Beijing in 2022 is conditioned on our participation in South Korea in 2018.
"And the NHLPA has now publicly confirmed that it has no interest or intention of engaging in any discussion that might make Olympic participation more attractive to the clubs.
"As a result, and in an effort to create clarity among conflicting reports and erroneous speculation, this will confirm our intention to proceed with finalizing our 2017-18 regular season schedule without any break to accommodate the Olympic Winter Games. We now consider the matter officially closed."
While the decision likely means many top players such as Pittsburgh Penguins star Sidney Crosby, who sparked Canada to gold in 2010 and 2014, won't play in Pyeongchang, some like Russia's Alex Ovechkin have vowed to play in the Games regardless of what their clubs think.
The NHL originally opted to interrupt its season to accommodte the Games in a bid to raise the profile of the game internationally. But owners have long disliked the idea of exposing their stars to the risk of mid-season injury and cramming more NHL games into a shorter timespan.
After the Turin Games in 2006, former Philadelphia Flyers owner Ed Snider said he didn't see the value in the move since the time difference prevented North American American fans from seeing the games in prime time.
That wasn't an issue for the Vancouver Games in 2010, but discussions intensified prior to the Sochi Games in 2014.
In 2014, the IOC agreed to cover insurance and travel costs for the players, which were approximately $14 million. But the IOC has refused to cover costs for 2018.
Nevertheless, IOC President Thomas Bach last month urged the NHL to make it easy for the game's best players to compete in the Games.
"We would appreciate having the NHL players with us and the players themselves, they want to play," Bach said during a visit to Pyeongchang. "So I would hope that the NHL and the International Ice Hockey Federation will be able to make the Olympic dreams of these players come true."

Source: AFP

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