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China presents perfect opportunity

In some ways, China represents all that is appealing to the National Hockey League about staying in the Olympics.

In a perfect NHL world, the Winter Olympics would be held in North America every four years and the league would enjoy the ratings bonanza it saw in 2010 when Canada edged the U.S. in overtime in the gold-medal game on Sidney Crosby's golden goal to close out the Vancouver Games.

And hockey was king. Thanks for coming out. Let's do that again.

But the world, and specifically the Olympic world, doesn't work like that.