NHL Not Panicking Yet over Olympic Ice Rink, But Getting Close To
Elliotte Friedman joined Scott Laughlin and Gord Stellick on Sirius XM NHL Network Radio on Wednesday and was asked concerning the Olympic Ice Hockey Rink and the priority from the NHL side since it isn’t yet accomplished.
NHLRumors.com Transcriptions
Scott Laughlin: The large news yesterday, I suppose, is that Friedge is the incontrovertible fact that the NHL, apparently, and you may shed some light on this a bit of bit further, is definitely sending a delegation while they’re over in Europe anyway, for the Global Series to go take a look at the sector in Italy. Concerned at once Friedge just as to if or not it’s going to be up and running in time for February.
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Elliotte Friedman: “I feel what’s happening here, Scott, is that they’ve gotten some concerning reports, and so they wish to send some people there to see of course. And there’s going to be someone from the Players Association going to it, as was mentioned to me last night (Tuesday), so I just heard that.
They get updates on a regular basis, and that is something that they’re not accountable for. And I, I just think they wish to see before they really comment on it. But yes, I got the sense yesterday (Tuesday) was a little bit of what exactly is occurring here. Although, as I wrote, they’re type of after I asked a number of different people, are really anxious, and the driest answer I got was, ‘We’ll see once they get there.’
So I feel we’ll have a greater idea in about every week where we’re. The games in Sweden are 14th and sixteenth. So I suppose they’re going to go over right after. I reminded (Gary) Bettman about this once, that they were still type of constructing Sochi after we showed up there in 2014, so it’s commonplace.
But he made the purpose of claiming that while that’s true, the rink was done well prematurely. They held the World Under-18s 10 months before those Olympics in 2014 and so they haven’t been capable of hold an event yet. After which they were purported to hold in December has been pushed back into January.
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So I might say there may be concern Scotty, nevertheless, they’re determined not to enter any type of panic mode until they see it next week.”
NHLRumors.com Note: As NHLRumors.com has documented, NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman isn’t glad with the delay in completing the Olympic ice rink in Milan. Again, as he has stated, the NHL and its Players are guests of the Olympics. Nonetheless, the incontrovertible fact that they’re sending people over to ascertain the progress of a rink that isn’t complete is raising alarm bells as to why, and will this force the NHL’s hand moving forward?
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