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AHL Players On Two-Way Contracts Will Be Eligible For The Olympics

07/19/2017 at 3:00pm EDT

from Tim Wharnsby of CBC,

The NHL has decided to allow AHL players under two-way NHL contracts to compete in the Olympics under the condition they only be released for the Pyeongchang Games in February.

In a memo sent to the 31 NHL teams this week, the league outlined AHL players can be loaned to national teams for the 2018 Olympic Games. But these players only can be made available between Feb. 5-26, 2018. The Winter Olympics men's hockey tournament begins on Feb. 9 and concludes with the gold-medal final on Feb. 25.

continued, mosty from the Canadian point of view...

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