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Originally Posted by flamesfan1297
^They still play an 82 game season during Olympic years
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Yes but they interrupt the season which makes it go into the summer and teams are paying millions of dollars to players that could suffer a serious injury during the Olympics. No other North American professional league does this so while I'm not saying I don't want NHL players in the Olympics I can totally understand why the NHL may not as they are taking all the risk for little if any reward as I personally don't buy that it creates more American NHL fans.