NHL’s International Plan Includes China But Not Olympics

PITTSBURGH (AP) — The NHL is heading to Asia next season. Just not the Olympics.
Commissioner Gary Bettman emphatically reasserted the league will not take a break next February to participate in the 2018 Winter Games in South Korea next February. The league previously announced it would skip going to Pyeongchang earlier this spring, a point Bettman bluntly reiterated on Monday just hours before Pittsburgh and Nashville met in Game 1 of the Stanley Cup Final.
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