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2021-2022 NHL Thread

Arn said:
The chinese Olympic team will consist mostly of North Americans (such as Jake Chelios) who have been given Chinese passports solely for the purpose of competing in the Olympics - even though Chinese law prohibits dual citizenship.
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Isn't that more or less what happens at most Olympics anyway? As far as I remember, the host teams in Korea and Italy were also made up of Canadians with dubious claims to citizenship too.
 
It appears 2 vaccine shots give relatively little protection against omicron (35% effective I think I heard).  Only a small percentage of the US population has had 2 shots + booster/infection.  Just about everyone I know is less cautious now than they were a year ago.  Omicron will double every 2-3 days in this relatively unprotected environment.  Last wave in the US topped out at 250k cases/day.  I?m not an epidemiologist but I?m predicting this next wave will be at least that bad. And that?s just the US.  I don?t see the NHL agreeing to let all their best players travel to meet in a big group in such circumstances.  The risk of infection is going to be too high. (The risk of infection is going to be ridiculously high in season too, but the NHL is going to make money off that.)
 
Nik said:
Arn said:
The chinese Olympic team will consist mostly of North Americans (such as Jake Chelios) who have been given Chinese passports solely for the purpose of competing in the Olympics - even though Chinese law prohibits dual citizenship.
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Isn't that more or less what happens at most Olympics anyway? As far as I remember, the host teams in Korea and Italy were also made up of Canadians with dubious claims to citizenship too.
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I think that the Italian team is pretty much always like that. (They have played against the GB side in several tournaments over the last few years and that has been the make up of their roster). So generally the guys they pick have played for the side for a while and even a lot of them play or have played in the Italian or Alps leagues.

This one is a bit different in just being a roster for this tournament who will likely never previously have and never likely will play for them again

 
There?s also a reasonable number of Canadian hockey players that legitimately have Italian ancestry (not necessarily NHL caliber, but AHL and European professional league level). Not sure that?s true for China, Korea, etc., yet - though, I suspect we?re not that far from it becoming the case.
 
Yes, fair point. A lot of the reason cited by many for them choosing to play in Italy at some point in their career is that heritage.

It?s the same reason for a lot of Canadian guys with Irish heritage coming to play in Belfast late in their careers
 
Guilt Trip said:
Arn said:
herman said:
https://twitter.com/katiejstrang/status/1468737384376328196
Incoming strongly worded tweet about journalism by the Coyotes lol
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Arn said:
Just came to post the same thing.

Les Coyotes Quebecois.
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https://twitter.com/hockeynight/status/1469885799218962432
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Would love to see Quebec get a team. Don't see it happening unfortunately.
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This seems a bit out of context. I heard the press conference and Bettman isn?t even sure who he?s meeting with in Quebec.
 
Joe S. said:
I honestly hope the nhl players don?t go.
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The Leafs were playing well before the last games, they guys came back and seemed to have lost there mojo (may have been an injury, can't remember).  I don't want them to go Covid or not.
 
herman said:
Ok so who is not in Covid protocol?
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https://twitter.com/reporterchris/status/1470840138909560839

If this keeps up, I can't see the league sending players to the Olympics, though, they may need to pause the season (not on the table yet, but I have to imagine some of the higher ups are thinking about it and have begun putting together contingency plans).
 
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