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On Monday, the NHL announced that it was hitting pause on the 2021-22 season through the Christmas break.
On Tuesday, the second piece of disappointing news emerged, as the NHL and NHLPA came to an agreement that NHL players would not be participating in the 2022 Olympic Games in Beijing, after such participation had been agreed upon in the latest collective bargaining agreement. COVID-19 has forced a “material change” in the NHL schedule, to the tune of around 50 games having been postponed, and the NHL had the right to use the Olympic break to make up its own games rather than have the players compete in the Winter Games.
This marks the second straight Olympic tournament from which the NHL opted out. It skipped Pyeongchang in 2018 for financial reasons including insurance coverage and a lack of revenue and branding concessions from the IOC.
Much like 2018, we’ll see a similar collection of amateur players and pros from leagues other than the NHL make up the rosters for this year’s tournament. Instead of Sidney Crosby and Connor McDavid in 2018, the Canadiens had Derek Roy and Rene Bourque, for example.
Without NHL players, who will be on the teams? And have new favorites emerged, given that new player pool?
ESPN reporters Kristen Shilton and Greg Wyshynski are here to provide some insight into those questions and more.
Who is in charge of the Olympic rosters now?
With the NHL not participating, managerial roles change for each country.
Doug Armstrong and Jon Cooper were general manager and head coach for Team Canada; those roles will now fall to Shane Doan and Claude Julien, respectively. Doan and Julien had previously been chosen by Team Canada to helm the Channel One Cup and Spengler Cup teams (although Canada backed out of the Spengler Cup this week).
Minnesota Wild GM Bill Guerin was just announced as Stan Bowman’s replacement a week ago as Team USA GM, but sources told ESPN he won’t be putting together this new U.S. roster. That task will likely fall to John…
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