Official 2018 Speculation Thread - Update - NHL says they are not participating

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[Bloody Brian Burke]

Can't wait to nab my Doan jersey!

 

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TORONTO – The door is still open for Jarome Iginla to skate for a third Olympic gold medal, but the future Hall of Famer needs to get moving.

“As good a player as Jarome has been, as good a man as he is, if he’s not playing, it’s hard to give yourself opportunity for a fair evaluation, quite honestly, of what he might be able to do in the Olympic Games,” Tom Renney, president and CEO of Hockey Canada, said Wednesday morning at Team Canada’s jersey unveiling event in Toronto.

“It’s tough to go from zero to 60 as a 40-year-old.”

He has not announced his retirement.

The Edmonton native was invited to suit up for Canada’s national team at November’s Olympic tune-up tournament, the Karjala Cup in Helsinki, but declined. The winger recently underwent a procedure to clean up loose particles in his hip.

Jarome Iginla needs to start playing if he wants to make Olympic team - Sportsnet.ca

 

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USA jerseys:

 

[Nasty_Magician]

First the Devils, now USA, are no uniforms safe?

 

[jstewismybastardson]

 

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So, just family and friends are going to watch Olympic hockey in 2018?!?

 

[jstewismybastardson]

So, just family and friends are going to watch Olympic hockey in 2018?!?

ANTON RODINS CHANCE !!!!!!

 

[puckhead]

IIHF Council meets in Zurich

"We wanted to outline our position clearly to the IOC, that we are against a collective punishment approach that would unfairly punish many Russian athletes that had nothing to do with doping," said IIHF President René Fasel.

 

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Let's go Team Neutral

 

[Bloody Brian Burke]

Let's go Team Neutral

I smell a lawsuit coming from Switzerland.

 

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I smell a lawsuit coming from Switzerland.

and Finland lol

 

[esls79]

Wait, broomball isn't an offical Olympic sport?

 

[tducey]

My poor old Senators lost again last night, got to think if this continues some big changes are coming.

 

[puckhead]

I smell a lawsuit coming from Switzerland.

I smell a Russian annex of Switzerland

 

[Bloody Brian Burke]

I smell a Russian annex of Switzerland

I guess they could try. The Swiss are armed to the teeth though and have a defensive setup that plays to their terrain perfectly.

Plus they would woo the Russians with all the chocolate and give them tummy aches and they wouldn't feel like fighting anymore then they'd get slaughtered and the victors would eat the really good chocolate.

 

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Here's the flag the Russians will walk in with during the opening ceremonies...

 

[Nasty_Magician]

#FuckKovy

 

[jstewismybastardson]

Here's the flag the Russians will walk in with during the opening ceremonies...

it would be immense if they went with a flag that had trumps face on it

 

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it would be immense if they went with a flag that had trumps face on it

closest I could find...