Ice Hockey Olympics Nhl

A record breaking career for national olympic legend hayley wickenheiser 05 mar 2020 vancouver 2010 vancouver 2010 ends in wild celebrations after canadian ice hockey victory 28 feb 2020 lausanne 2020 unstoppable russia shut out usa to win men s ice hockey gold 22 jan 2020 lausanne 2020.

Ice hockey olympics nhl. The olympic games is the unique platform we can use to promote hockey especially in asia with the best on best. The nhl understands the arguments for participating in the olympics. Iihf president rene fasel on possible nhl participation at the 2022 winter games. International ice hockey federation iihf president rené fasel said sunday that his organization needs an answer from the nhl before the last three nations qualify for the olympic men s hockey tournament in late august.

It understands why its players want to go. Ice hockey spread to europe around the turn of the century and the first olympic games to include ice hockey for men were the 1920 antwerp summer games. Olympic hockey officials need to know by late august whether the nhl will participate in the 2022 beijing winter games. The favorites to win the gold medal were the russians due to their domestic league the khl taking an olympic break and allowing such stars as pavel datsyuk and ilya kovalchuk to play on the team.

Knight would be the youngest u s. Women s ice hockey was accepted as an olympic sport in 1992 and made its official debut in 1998 in nagano. Cumulative medal count. The olympic ice hockey tournament in pyeongchang in 2018 was held without participation of nhl players for the first time since the 1994 winter olympics in lillehammer.

Promoting the league growing the sport giving fans and players a great experience. Olympic male hockey player in the nhl era breaking defenseman bryan berard s record from 1998. Six a side men s ice hockey has been on the programme of every edition of the winter games since 1924 in chamonix. 1 but has battled injuries since sochi.

Since 1998 the league s players had made the olympic men s hockey tournament every four years the greatest series of best on best events we ve ever seen but the league never gained anything.