Some of the best hockey players in the world won't be there, at least those of the male variety.
The best women will, though that hardly serves as consolation for both NBC and organizers of the upcoming Olympics in South Korea.
There's finally some clarity to the Olympic hockey competition, after weeks of anxious negotiations on the part of the women and apparently no negotiations for the superstar NHL players who are now facing the very real possibility they won't be wearing national uniforms in February.
Or maybe there isn't, at least on the part of the men.