Egland scores Teddy Bear Toss goal but Pats lose in OT
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Over 3,000 stuffed animals were tossed onto the ice.
It’s unfortunate that there will not be a World Cup of Hockey in 2020.
Negotiations between the NHL and players association for a new collective bargaining agreement means the tournament is on hold. I still find it odd that some players push to go to the Olympics and don’t always fully back a best-on-best tournament where they could share in the profits.
This is a quote from NHL commissioner Gary Bettman on 650 CKOM and 980 CJME’s Prime Time Sports on Wednesday night: “I don’t think we missed a beat in not going to Pyeongchang and, in fact, we had a great season that would’ve been disrupted.”
He’s not wrong. The 2017-18 NHL season was fantastic, and the schedule was not altered because of the Olympic games.
The Winnipeg Jets’ run to the final four, and the Knights appearance in the Stanley Cup final in their first year of existence made for some compelling hockey on both sides of the border.
NHL players first went to the Olympic games over 20 years ago. Many players can’t remember a time, prior to 2018, that NHL players didn’t compete at the event.
But the world’s best-on-best tournament should benefit the players and the owners of the best league in the world, the NHL.