NHL Gamers Reportedly Will not Attend Olympics Amid COVID-19 Issues

For days, issues had been trending within the path of NHL gamers not going to the 2022 Olympics.

It seems that will, certainly, be the case.

The NHL and NHLPA agreed that NHL gamers is not going to go to the Beijing Olympics, ESPN reported Tuesday, citing a number of sources.

Gamers had began to bitter on the potential of attending given the quarantine necessities if a participant examined optimistic for COVID-19 on the Olympics. It could be a compulsory three-to-five-week quarantine, which might maintain gamers away from their households and groups for vital weeks of the NHL season.

The pause to NHL video games at the moment in place amid is sharp rise in COVID instances over the past week-plus hasn’t helped the trigger. Not solely will that complicate the schedule for the remainder of the season, but in addition might add some concern in regards to the probability of a optimistic check on the Olympics — particularly since it is going to come shortly after All-Star weekend in Las Vegas.

Whereas the choice has not been made official, the ESPN report indicated it could possibly be formally introduced later Tuesday or Wednesday. As for who would substitute NHL gamers on the Olympic rosters, that’s not completely clear. In 2018, the rosters had been comprised largely of gamers who had been taking part in abroad.