Helene Elliott: NHL guys are missed at Games
by Helene Elliott, Los Angeles Times
Feb 25, 2018
3 minutes
PYEONGCHANG, South Korea - The NHL's refusal to allow players to represent their homelands in the Pyeongchang Winter Games turned out to be a vast equalizer in the men's hockey tournament that concluded early Sunday morning between Germany and the Olympic Athletes from Russia.
Teams that had little chance against star-powered rosters assembled by Canada, the U.S., and other top-ranked nations in the last five Winter Games turned into contenders here.
With everybody using third-tier players who aren't in the NHL because they lack size, speed, or the taste for
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