NHL players are returning to the Winter Olympics in 2022 in Beijing.
The league and the NHL Players’ Association announced a joint agreement Friday with the International Ice Hockey Federation to take a break in the 2021-22 regular-season schedule to accommodate the players’ participation.
This will be the sixth time NHL players have competed in the Winter Games. The first time was at Nagano, Japan, in 1998, and the most recent was at Sochi, Russia, in 2014.
NHL Players will participate in the Olympics
“We understand how passionately NHL Players feel about representing and competing for their countries,” NHL deputy commissioner Bill Daly said.