Four years ago, we watched proudly as Anze Kopitar led Team Slovenia to a stunning seventh-place finish in men’s hockey at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi. We rebranded ourselves as SBN Slovenia, learned how to say Jewels from the Crown in Slovenian (“Dragulji iz krone”), took a history lesson, figured out who the other guys on the roster were, and celebrated as Slovenia took down Slovakia and Austria.
Kopitar’s not at these Olympics, of course, and neither is anyone else currently in the NHL. The NHL season hasn’t taken a break, and we still have to write about whatever happens in our area of the world.