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Originally Posted by Locke
Heres a curveball regarding the NHL, NHLPA and Olympic Participation in the future:
The biggest reason the NHL pulled the plug on this year's Olympics was because the IOC and IIHF came back to them and said that they werent going to cover Travel, Accommodation or Insurance anymore and were unwilling to concede anything concerning Advertising or Promotion for the NHL.
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I don't think that is the biggest reason. My reasoning being that had it actually been that big of an issue I don't believe the league would ever have offered to let the players go under any circumstances. IMO the league making the offer to allow Olympic participation in exchange for an extension of the CBA with no changes to anything else like escrow really speaks volumes to how indifferent the NHL is to the "hardship" that the Olympics has on the season.