Jakub Voráček doesn’t really believe that NHL players will play in the Olympics
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“Going to the Olympics is everyone’s dream. It’s something that everyone wants to experience and I think they will finally agree and it will work out, “says Detroit’s 25-year-old Jakub Vrána, who has not yet started the games.
Although the NHL is planning a two-week break in the schedule for the new season in case its players go to Beijing, this does not mean anything at the moment. If no agreement is reached, the world’s best competition will continue in February without any break.
Jakub Vrána.
Czech hockey
The collective agreement ratified in October by members of the NHLPA and the NHL Board of Governors envisages the return of the league’s players to the 2022 Olympic Games in Beijing and 2026 in Milan and Cortina d’Ampezzo, but can still throw in a covid.
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Respectively insurance of players against coronavirus infection. According to acclaimed journalist Larry Brooks of the NY Post, the NHLPA warned the players that the competition will not pay for the players’ insurance, and the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) does not want to do much.
“All players would like to be able to go, but the situation may change. We’ll see. As a young man, I was already at the Olympics in Sochi, where we had a lot of veterans in the team. Now I would probably have a different position and it would be about something else. It would be great to fight for medals, “reports Tampa Bay striker Ondřej Palát.
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Jakub Voráček.
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Jakub Voráček is not so optimistic about this. Exactly opposite. Even due to a three-year-old experience when he could not go to Pyongyang, as well as other NHL fighters …
“I am very skeptical. Like everyone else, I would love to go to it, but we have known in the past that we are very small gentlemen, “says Voráček, who is returning to Columbus in the NHL after ten years in Philadelphia.
“I think there will be an excuse for not going, and in the end it will not work. Which will make me very sorry, “adds the 31-year-old Kladno breeder.
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Dominik Kubalík.
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“The Olympics are the pinnacle of everything for me. Already during that summer in Tokyo, I was watching TV on what was going on. For all possible sports. It would be great if NHL players could also go to Beijing. Then just get to the selection, “dreamed the Chicago forward Dominik Kubalík, who together with the goalkeeper French is the only Czech currently working in the NHL, who played in the tournament under five circles three years ago, because at that time they both had engagements in Europe. .
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