Boston Bruins owner Jeremy Jacobs met with the media yesterday to wrap up the season.
And also had this to say regarding the 2018 Olympics...
via Kevin Paul Dupont of the Boston Globe,
The senior Jacobs, when asked about NHL participation in the 2018 Olympics in South Korea, said, “I don’t think it’s going to happen.”...
“When you stop and think about it,” said Jacobs, “should we take those weeks out of our season, turn it off, continue to depend on these players to perform for us when they get back, if they get back, if they come back in good condition?”
Jacobs remains a proponent of the Olympics adding hockey to the Summer Games menu, an idea dating back even to before the NHL first released its players for the 1998 Games in Nagano, Japan.
“They won’t embrace it,” said Jacobs, referring to the International Olympic Committee. “So it is what it is.”
Jacobs also noted the time difference between North America and Korea, conjecturing that games would air on TV here at 2 or 3 a.m.
“I think the four people that watch it don’t justify it,” he added.
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