Bad news for ice hockey fans: the prospect of seeing the best players in the NHL, the North American professional championship, participating in the next Winter Olympics seems very compromised. In question, the decision of the IOC to no longer pay the travel and insurance costs of hockey players for the PyeongChang Games in 2018. A cost estimated at 10 to 14 million dollars. The IOC had paid the bill during the five previous Games, from Nagano 1998 to Sochi 2014. But this time, the Olympic organization is refusing to do so. A decision that NHL clubs could use to justify their refusal to release their players during the Olympic tournament.
— Published on May 2, 2016
