NHL commissioner Gary Bettman said Tuesday to assume the league will not send players to the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics, according to Reuters.
“As things stand now people should assume we are not going,” Bettman said, according to the report.
That statement is in line with other comments from Bettman and other NHL officials over the last several months. If the status quo is unchanged, they have said they don’t plan to participate in a sixth straight Olympics in PyeongChang.
The NHL has not definitively said it will not participate, but Bettman has said there are no negotiations with Olympic or International Ice Hockey Federation officials planned.