The Winter Olympics will be held in Pyeongchang, South Korea in February of 2018. While hockey will continue to be a sport in the Winter Olympics, players under contract in the NHL will not be allowed to participate.
The NHL and commissioner Gary Bettman have decided that their players will not be allowed to participate at the Olympics. Bettman said the league doesn’t want its season to be interrupted. Several NHL players took to social media to voice their opinions on the matter. Other players even went over to play for their countries in the IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship.
Since there will be no NHL players participating in the Olympics in February. Let’s take a look at which New York Rangers would’ve made their respected countries Olympic rosters…