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December 8, 2017: What will men’s hockey at the 2018 Olympics look like without NHL players?<\/p>\n
Winter Olympic hockey without NHL players will be a can-miss event<\/p>\n
It won\u2019t be Canada\u2019s B or even C team playing men\u2019s winter Olympic hockey. It\u2019ll be closer to the P team.<\/p>\n
In 2018 Winter Olympics Games in PyeongChang, South Korea, the NHL will NOT let its players participate for the first time since 1994, citing potential player injuries and disruption to the league\u2019s regular schedule.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat people love about the Olympics is that they are watching the best in the world,\u201d says Norman O\u2019Reilly, a professor of sports administration at Ohio State University and a former mission staff member with the Canadian Olympic Committee.<\/p>\n
Without the best from the NHL, \u201cit will impact television ratings. It\u2019ll impact streaming. It\u2019ll impact the amount of social media chatter and how much media talk about it.\u201d<\/p>\n
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December 8, 2017: What will men’s hockey at the 2018 Olympics look like without NHL players? Winter Olympic hockey without NHL players will be a can-miss event It won\u2019t be Canada\u2019s B or even C team playing men\u2019s winter Olympic hockey. It\u2019ll be closer to the P team. In 2018 Winter Olympics Games in PyeongChang, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[88],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n