With NHL players expected to participate in men’s ice hockey at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing – even as the pandemic muddies the situation – …
With NHL players expected to participate in men’s ice hockey at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing – even as the pandemic muddies the situation – the level of play will be elite. That caused the International Ice Hockey Federation to assess the caliber of the host country, China. No.32 in the IIHF world rankings, China faced a series of defeats in the fall, after not playing since 2019, that thrust the team’s competency into question. «The Council confirmed that it will uphold the decision by the 2018 IIHF Congress to grant the Chinese men’s national team a host qualification position in the 2022 Olympic Games,» the IIHF said in a release.
