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The Importance Of Playing In The Olympics
by Paul on 09/23/09 at 09:07 AM ET
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from CTV Olympics,
“If it’s my choice, of course I would play,” said Daniel Alfredsson who won gold with Sweden in 2006 in Turin. “I don’t know if I would go as far as saying I would play regardless but I think there’s a lot of factors that come into it. The NHL pays our salaries, they’re a big part of it.”
“Obviously for every hockey player the Olympics is a dream, especially if it’s held in your country.”
“I don’t know,” said Jason Blake, a member of the 2006 U.S. Olympic team. “Obviously that’s their decision at the end of the day. Obviously I got to go and I enjoyed it but at the end of the day, it’s the NHL’s decision.”
The 2010 Olympics have stirred up much national pride. (Ron) Wilson believes a few Canadian players in the NHL would opt to leave their team and play for their country in Vancouver if the NHL were not part of the Games.
“If the NHL said,’this year no NHL player involvement’, then there would have been a few NHL players who would decide to play in the Olympics.”
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I’m definitely going to bother reading a most-assuredly-unbiased article coming from the CTV Olympics website…
Posted by Garth on 09/23/09 at 11:23 AM ET