[hwy19man]

Originally Posted by GirlySports

yeah I can't see them turning back now, it would undo all the work that was done since 98. As getbak said above, NHLers now dream of going to the Olympics. It would be tough to take that away.

I'm in the camp of they never should have went ever. Why abandon your own world cup that makes money for you to interrupt your own season and lose money and to fill the pocket of the IOC. It makes no sense at all.

Whereas a sport like baseball is correctly doing the opposite. Never send MLB players to the Olympics and instead create their own World Cup.

The world cup would never be as popular as the Olympics. That is the dilemma facing the NHL with the Olympics spotlight on the NHL players but the league gets no money out of it. The NBA started it and Bettman took the NHL down the same path. Soccer has the best of both worlds having the World Cup and the Olympics.