NHL players are allowed to participate in the Beijing Winter Olympics

Earlier this month, the North American professional hockey league (NHL) announced that it had reached an agreement with relevant institutions to set aside a “gap period” in the regular season schedule of the new season to create conditions for NHL players to participate in the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics. The world’s top players will be able to return to the Winter Olympics and make the game more exciting.

This will be the time for NHL players to return to the Olympic stage after eight years after participating in the 2014 Winter Olympic Games. According to the ice hockey division of the Beijing Winter Olympic Games, the Chinese men’s ice hockey team is in group A with the United States, Canada nhl jerseys and Germany and will play against the world’s top players at home.

NHL is the world’s top professional hockey league jerseys and one of the four major professional sports leagues in North America. It brings together almost all top hockey players from the United States, Canada and European hockey powers. From the 1998 Nagano Winter Olympics to the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics, NHL adjusted the event arrangement for the schedule of the Winter Olympics, and its players were able to participate in the Winter Olympics on behalf of their respective countries and regions, which also made the game wonderful.

On the eve of the 2018 Winter Olympics, NHL refused to adjust the regular season schedule for its own interests, resulting in many top players failing to go to Pingchang and a sharp decline in the competitive level of the game. In this competition, the final audience rating decreased by 40% compared with 2014, which disappointed the IOC.

Last February, the International Olympic Committee and the International Hockey Federation (IIHF) held consultations with NHL and the league players’ Union (nhlpa) in the hope that the league would support its players to participate in the Winter Olympics. In July, NHL announced the completion of negotiations with nhlpa, and more than two-thirds of the players voted remotely in favor of the agreement on schedule adjustment. As long as all parties reach an agreement, league players can participate in the Beijing Winter Olympics and Milan cordina danpezo 2026 Winter Olympics.

Now, NHL players return to the Winter Olympics and finally the dust is settled. Bill Daley, vice president of NHL, said: “we understand the enthusiasm of NHL players to represent their countries. Now, we are very happy to reach an agreement to let top ice hockey players jerseys from china all countries return to the Olympic stage and compete together.”

Meanwhile, the agreement also reserves the right to terminate for NHL and nhlpa. Both parties have the right to prevent NHL players from participating in the Winter Olympics if they believe that the subsequent epidemic development makes it impractical or unsafe for NHL players to participate in the Winter Olympics.