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Originally Posted by iggy_oi
But then why would the league have offered participation at all? Despite all the issues with the IOC and IIHF, the NHL still voluntarily offered to agree to allow the players to participate if they extended the CBA. This to me suggests the league is nowhere near as opposed to Olympic participation as they claim to be. All of the risks and costs associated with participation would have remained, it could easily be argued that the league would have put themselves in an even worse position to negotiate a better deal from the IOC since they would not have had the option of not allowing their players to participate.
Bottom line is participating would have had all the same risks, the only thing that would have changed would have been that the CBA would be expiring 3 years later. The league would have no additional benefit or gain from the Olympics.
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I think you are underselling the benefit of extending the CBA 3 years and pushing back the expected lockout.