99 percent of the men’s hockey tournament at the 2022 Olympic Games in Beijing will be without NHL players. The rapidly spreading variant of the coronavirus omicron almost certainly stops the participation of the best hockey players in the world under five colored circles.
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Star Russian Yevgeny Malkin in a duel with American Ryan McDonagh at the Sochi 2014 Olympics.
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According to ESPN television, the NHL management has already agreed with the NHLPA, but details and the official opinion have not yet been released. This is expected to happen in the coming hours.
“The NHLPA has had to go through its own internal process and made a number of phone calls to the players. They also have to negotiate with the International Olympic Committee to confirm this.
It won’t work without it. In its assessment, the NHL is likely to point out that the current wave of COVID-19 has obviously had a more significant effect on the season, something that could not have been taken into account in the agreement to allow players to play in Beijing.
The large number of missed matches would also negatively affect the seasonal income distribution system and the business must be maintained, “said Pierre LeBrun, editor of the Canadian TSN.
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According to another overseas hockey expert Chris Johnston, several of the world’s leading players have not enthusiastically received the information that they will not be able to play after Pyongyang 2018 or Beijing 2022.
“As far as I know, the hockey players wanted to talk to NHLPA boss Donald Fehr or their organization’s lawyers, but they were not allowed to do so.
In reality, they were only told that they would not fly to Beijing because it was out of the question. “Many of them were very disappointed,” Johnston wrote.
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Formerly great Russian hockey player Darius Kasparaitis is also disappointed with the current situation.
The holder of the medal set from the Winter Olympics disappointedly claims that once something has been promised, it should be fulfilled.
“It’s terrible what’s happening in the NHL. I understand that a new coronavirus variant is spreading in the NHL, but it’s not right if players don’t have a choice and especially if the competition has already reached an agreement to release them.
There must always be a choice, and not just get banned. Every athlete should have the right to take part in the Olympic Games, “the Russian Championat.com website quotes a former great defender with almost a thousand matches in the NHL.
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The facts are relentless. They had to postpone 50 games in the NHL before the extended Christmas break, and it is expected that the February break, originally reserved for the participation of hockey players at the 2022 Olympics, will be used as an alternative date for this large portion of matches.
The negative attitudes of the NHL and NHLPA to the participation of hockey stars from overseas in Beijing were probably also contributed by the information that if they became infected with a coronavirus during the 2022 Olympic Games, players would be threatened with quarantine for several weeks.
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