NHL commissioner Gary Bettman said on Tuesday that with negotiations on Olympic participation at a standstill people should assume the league will not be sending its players to the 2018 PyeongChang Olympics. "There are no negotiations ongoing," Bettman told Reuters at the Sport Business Summit in New York. "As things stand now people should assume we are not going." After participating in each of the last five Winter Games, Bettman said there has been no quantitative benefit to the NHL. "We don't get content for the NHL Network, we don't get content for our social media platforms and NHL.com.

Source: CBC News March 21, 2017 21:11 UTC