The NHL and NHLPA collectively agreed for players to not go to the Olympics. The risk was too great with the potential of a five-week quarantine if a player tested positive while in Beijing, and with so many games postponed due to the league’s own COVID outbreak, they will aim to use the scheduled three-week break to play some make-up games and lessen the load on the schedule later on in the season. Those reasons make sense, but when it comes to a player-by-player basis, there are certain ones that would have done so much more to be able to represent their country and play in the first best-on-best hockey tournament in a very long time.
Kaprizov disappointed to not go to Olympics
