NHL to officially announce participation in Olympics - with ability to withdraw

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Official announcement coming shortly, but NHL/NHLPA have the ability to withdraw if circumstances change for the worse. Also, if NHL games are cancelled during the season due to outbreaks and there is not room to reschedule, league has option to cancel participation.

It's been far, far too long since we've seen top level international hockey. Fingers and toes crossed...
 
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Yes, and... for the sadists in the room, there are also Gretzky benched in a shootout moments too.
 
The league grew a brain!!!!!

NHL needs all the eyes it can get. Letting the NHL players participate in the OLY games is a no-brainer decision.
You need to grow the fanbase.
 
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Yes, and... for the sadists in the room, there are also Gretzky benched in a shootout moments too.
Appropriately so. He was remarkably bad on breakaways and in shootouts for a player of his ability. Had to have been a mental thing.
 
Appropriately so. He was remarkably bad on breakaways and in shootouts for a player of his ability. Had to have been a mental thing.

I know this sounds like I'm back on weed but do you think Kirk Alan McLean still has nightmares about him?
 
By the way, the Athletic's projected lineups for the top five teams feature exactly one King - Arvidsson playing on the 4th line for Sweden. Can't really make a strong argument for any other King being there. Yikes.
 
I know this sounds like I'm back on weed but do you think Kirk Alan McLean still has nightmares about him?
Fairly sure all goalies from that era still tell their kids scary stories with Gretzky as the boogeman.
 
Fairly sure all goalies from that era still tell their kids scary stories with Gretzky as the boogeman.

Fair enough, and he always had Trevor's arms to hold him afterwards. Wonder if Linden's jersey is still a top seller in BC? hmmm. Okay, i've drifted too far...
 
Appropriately so. He was remarkably bad on breakaways and in shootouts for a player of his ability. Had to have been a mental thing.

Maybe Mario Lessard was in his head after he stopped Gretzky on a breakaway late in game 1 of the 1982 playoffs (which was a 9-8 game at the time).
 
I love the Winter Olympics, with or with out the NHL. I'm not so sure shutting down the league this season in February is such a good idea to pack up and go to China.
 
I'd rather see a return of the World Cup of Hockey on a semi-regular yet erratically varied schedule randomly every 4-5-6-7-8-9-10-11- or 12 years. It'd be cool if other countries would host it as well.
 
I guess both the Americans & Canadians were pissed the Russians won, haha. :D
 
Appropriately so. He was remarkably bad on breakaways and in shootouts for a player of his ability. Had to have been a mental thing.

Nope. I would say the best "big moment" player in history, but some may say Mario... think we can all at least agree he was top five in the world? There's no way on earth you don't put him in the shootout. That team was full of great players and it's hard to deny Lindros' deserving to be there. If you had five players of his caliber in the shootout, then maybe I'm okay with it. Who went? Ray Bourque. King of the breakaway? Not exactly.

That team exposed the fraud that Marc Crawford was (and we all got a reminder a decade or so later.) If you wanted to get a defenceman in there - send Macinnis first to fire one and either score or at least shake up Hasek a bit. But really, there was no need for it. You had the greatest player of all time sitting watching. Forget who was responsible for picking the team, but Messier instead of Zamuner (on the team) would've made some sense too and I can tell you even though Mess wasn't an end to end guy, but he too would've scored when it mattered.

Gretzky wasn't always the best on breakaways, but he was the best in high pressure situations. And if we missed? Well, then you let the greatest player of all time go, no one is going to have a problem with losing that way. Crawford and Murray were absolute morons with this team. According to Gretzky at some point, AM said to 99 something about him being in the shootout at some point (this is before the medal games) and 99 said something like well there's a lot of talented guys here, don't know if I'd get a chance. 99 thinks nothing of the convo and goes about his day, AM runs to Crawford and tells him 99 doesn't want to be in the shootout. So that shows AM being an idiot for sure, but how about ol' coach in a must-win game at least makes his way to the guy literally called "The Great One" in the Olympics, which he always said was his one big dream left and say, wanna shoot?

Sorry, as you can see, some of us Canadians are still not over that one.

Finally, you said he was bad in shootouts - don't know that he was ever in one? Am I forgetting something? He wasn't great on breakaways, but he had his share of goals on them. It's the one category Mario has it over Wayne imo, but he wasn't as bad as you're remembering imo.
 
Nope. I would say the best "big moment" player in history, but some may say Mario... think we can all at least agree he was top five in the world? There's no way on earth you don't put him in the shootout. That team was full of great players and it's hard to deny Lindros' deserving to be there. If you had five players of his caliber in the shootout, then maybe I'm okay with it. Who went? Ray Bourque. King of the breakaway? Not exactly.

That team exposed the fraud that Marc Crawford was (and we all got a reminder a decade or so later.) If you wanted to get a defenceman in there - send Macinnis first to fire one and either score or at least shake up Hasek a bit. But really, there was no need for it. You had the greatest player of all time sitting watching. Forget who was responsible for picking the team, but Messier instead of Zamuner (on the team) would've made some sense too and I can tell you even though Mess wasn't an end to end guy, but he too would've scored when it mattered.

Gretzky wasn't always the best on breakaways, but he was the best in high pressure situations. And if we missed? Well, then you let the greatest player of all time go, no one is going to have a problem with losing that way. Crawford and Murray were absolute morons with this team. According to Gretzky at some point, AM said to 99 something about him being in the shootout at some point (this is before the medal games) and 99 said something like well there's a lot of talented guys here, don't know if I'd get a chance. 99 thinks nothing of the convo and goes about his day, AM runs to Crawford and tells him 99 doesn't want to be in the shootout. So that shows AM being an idiot for sure, but how about ol' coach in a must-win game at least makes his way to the guy literally called "The Great One" in the Olympics, which he always said was his one big dream left and say, wanna shoot?

Sorry, as you can see, some of us Canadians are still not over that one.

Finally, you said he was bad in shootouts - don't know that he was ever in one? Am I forgetting something? He wasn't great on breakaways, but he had his share of goals on them. It's the one category Mario has it over Wayne imo, but he wasn't as bad as you're remembering imo.

Yup. I was going to type back something similar (big players produce in big moments) but knew every Canadian on the planet said/typed/yelled this exact sentiment for 12 years ( until the 2010 games) straight. No new territory (but liked that you put in the work- and clowned , Crawford). Would not mind watching all the Nagano games again. Every team. Didn't SVK go on a headhunting spree?


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