If the NHL doesn’t send its players to the 2018 Winter Olympics, the hockey tournament in PyeongChang will look familiar.
It will look a lot like the Olympics in Lillehammer in 1994, Albertville in 1992 and Calgary in 1988.
Maybe even a little like 1980 in Lake Placid, site of the “Miracle On Ice.”
With a year before the opening ceremony, the league, players union, International Ice Hockey Federation and International Olympic Committee still don’t have an agreement to send NHL players to their sixth consecutive Olympics. There is still time – an agreement last time around came in July before the 2014 Games in Sochi – but everyone is forming a Plan B just in case.