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Originally Posted by Canada 02
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Im gonna guess he isnt alone and in fact i would say the VAST majority of guys wont go with the existing protocols now understood. Guys are just now absorbing what it all really means.
You could go to China to play...even play a few games...and then get a positive test. Now you have to hope like hell it was a false positive and get consecutive negative results. Then if that doesn't happen.......Now you are faced with a month of confinement/quarantine in Beijing....cant skate....cant socialize.....wont get paid while not playing for your NHL team....and wont have the IOC or COC there to facilitate anything if there are "issues". Won't have access to family or your agent....and on and on it goes.
That is a huge huge risk to take. Might be a handful of guys that will (Ovechkin immediately comes to mind), but IMO once push comes to shove, most guys are going to bail and you really cannot blame them one iota.