As the NHL opened its season, Canada's potential Olympic starting goaltender was half a world away. Scrivens has been in contact with Hockey Canada and he played pre-season games on a roster assembled from KHL players. Of those three, Scrivens has the most NHL experience (144 NHL games for four teams between 2011 and 2016). Elephant in the room"The elephant in the room is what's going to happen with the Olympics," Scrivens says. KHL players can hit the ground running in Pyeongchang with experience on international-size ice and the experience of facing players of Kovalchuk and Datsyuk's calibre.

Source: CBC News October 08, 2017 14:48 UTC