We get he's in a snit that the International Olympic Committee pulled its financial aid for the league's travel, insurance, hospitality and lodging expenses. But the NHL is missing a momentous opportunity in many ways by halting its Olympic participation. The NHL was told by the IOC last week that "the NHL's participation in Beijing in 2022 is conditioned on [the NHL's] participation in South Korea in 2018." The IOC recently set an end-of-April deadline for the NHL to decide on its Olympic participation. His office did nothing after the NHL's first Olympic Games in Nagano in 1998 to get a foot in the Asian market.

Source: CBC News April 04, 2017 02:37 UTC