NHL players will not compete in Beijing Olympics amid COVID-19 surge
by Helene Elliott, Los Angeles Times
Dec 22, 2021
3 minutes
NHL players will not represent their respective homelands in the menâs hockey tournament at the Beijing Olympics, their participation in the Winter Games becoming the latest casualty of a COVID-19 resurgence that has ravaged rosters and scrambled schedules of sports teams and leagues around the world.
The NHL, NHL Players' Association and International Ice Hockey Federation had agreed in September that NHL players would return to the Olympics after the parties couldn't agree on
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