Rick Stephens

They had a 2-0 shutout of the Railers on Friday night.

Well, that's good.

That's positive.

We like that.

To set the context, if the NHL is shutting down for a couple weeks, they are sending, oh, I don't know, a billion dollars worth of players over to the Olympics.

And the complaint is, and we've seen it all over, that what is the league getting out of this?

You know, the players look great.

The games are great.

But what does the NHL itself get out of it?

At least for Four Nations, they had total control.

They had all the...

the advertising, and they had all of the video.

And because the NHL and the owners have all of the risk, I mean, we saw that with Kevin Fiala, and now his season's over.

You know, the question is always asked, what benefit is there?

And Seth Rorbaugh, he's a beat writer for the Penguins, I believe, said,

He pointed out that you can't even... If you go to NHL.com, you can see the scores there of the games, the Olympic hockey games.

But there's no game reports.

There's no statistics.

There's no video highlights.

There's nothing.