Rick Stephens

negotiating with the IOC and the IHF because they know that the players have demanded as part of their CBA that they must be back at the Olympics.

So there's not really much leverage that the NHL has here to try and get...

More access to information that their fans want.

And even us, as reporting on this, it's not easy.

The Olympic site is terrible.

Try getting stats.

Yeah, it's not fun.

So anyway, we just thought that was...

interesting to share uh that gary kind of feels he's trying to put a you know trying to put lipstick on a pig here i was gonna say i was gonna say it if you didn't uh baby steps i suppose baby steps

And things are going to start to happen very quickly.

While we're focused on the medal round of men's hockey at the Olympics, things are going to be happening this upcoming week.

We had talked about a handful of players here and there skating on their own.

Well, full practices are going to resume this upcoming week.

We know that...

The full practices will start after 2 p.m.

local on February 17th.

The schedule is going to start a week later than that on the 25th.

We're only a week away, eight days away from the trade freeze coming to an end.

And then...

March 6th is the trade deadline.