most will go. in with the most fundamental needs. of them some listeners know but some have almost all of them still want to fix and they've got to. be. on the. album of the. welcome to sophie shevardnadze as the winter olympic games are almost upon us and that means an international battle in their ring to take ice hockey gold is on. however wasn't a player is locked out from autonomy team russia forced to play under

a neutral banner how different will the twenty eighteen championship be from previous i talked to five time stanley cup winner and olympic bronze medalist corey . dillon for ultimate international pride is just weeks away but with the game's best players locked out by the end participation in jeopardy will the olympic playoffs be relinked stanley cup for an. unknown masters rise in the absence of the usual suspects of hockey or will the lack of star power reduce the competition to a second great show. eric henri it's really great to have you on our program thanks for being with us welcome to moscow we want to be here so let's start with the olympics and what's happening there so this year and they may show players will not participate in the olympic games to use thing their absence will actually make their race for the olympic gold like maybe sort of missed. great contest. well.

definitely has done the same tournament. so it's a sad story that and it still has not been there and the best players won't be there i think will be here hockey will be here with the facts of hockey it's a fast life the best players. who grew up playing hockey and. they trimix to the. olympics and the countries where they're on you celebrate the olympics and the whole family was told because it's all about is done only with the hockey to put the sports. and all course got to ski jumpers like the big family to join because. it's a sad story. that's a lot of. i don't know the politics money or whatever the stories but. i don't want to still see in the second story of tournament you know i think the players who could have been. brought

a good chance the other players to enjoy the location the other players have success another interesting moment but just the fact they star players absent because n.h.l. is where the hockey stars are let's face it do you feel like it makes the olympic hockey of this year less attractive. honestly it's. just because of course they're very recognized that the display is not there should be there a place should be playing the country it's all. about i still. think that the u.s. will be there i think there will be soup support in them and they should be very excited to be brought out to be that part of the team i know that some of the n.h.l. players like ovechkin cross-tree they're being very outspoken about their disappointment . not going to the olympics do you thing pressure from the players could change anything here. i think it's in the should be to play it's up

to the owners. and it still they should listen to the players and their tours of course we don't know what's happening behind the scenes what the the main reasons why then it still play of some of the biggest old nurse will let the players flow for two weeks what three weeks. and all of the money was interest what was the number one reason so we really don't know that it's a simple off think that that that should be come out and explain to people who saw the reasons why and it's a place out there should be there allowed to go if they want to on their own for instance like russia they can go on their own now that they may be suspended should an n.h.l. players be allowed to go on their own with their own money if they want to play. you know says no chaps the league has the rules of the game so. this gets old

stereo and. that would be too messy. too bad so he said let's see they ask let's i'm going to play in the olympics now we should give them a chance and that was this incredible story in the eighty's i remember aware and nonprofessional american team actually won the gold medal teasing something like this could happen this time around the miracle on the ice yes i listen to nineteen i was there and i was to be out of the film looks. nights in your soul. plane afford a lot of moves. but just being a part of the olympics family was a big thrill for me and. good that happened. next year in korea. are to say this so strong teams going to europe russia have strong teams you know i think the feel like i'm really good je suis and check some of the most old canada has a lot of play. the europe usa has a play this little europe it's

a little bit different so you would take a miracle for you that really already there are a lot of what are you saying thirty years on earth thirty something years on hockey has gotten much stronger than back then in the eighty's. it has. a lot of contrasts catching up you know maybe in the eighty's to soviet union was so much better canada now that the swedes win the world yusuf to feel less winning the world championships so the cap is not a big anymore so. i think we can call six five six countries we're going to need to be talking to tell me tell me because i'm a deal a townhouse in the olympic contest different from the n.h.l. stanley cup playoffs i mean you played in both obviously you want someone else is there more pressure when you're doing the stanley cup game seven or when you're actually gold. no the pressure is there i mean when you start make up

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