Key Highlights
- The Games are just two months away, and they have yet to finish construction on the building. It also surfaced this week that the ice surface, which the International Olympic Committee and the NHL agreed would be built to NHL standards, is more than 3 feet smaller than it should be. AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisement“I don’t understand how that happened,” said Team Canada assistant coach Pete DeBoer on radio show “Real Kyper and Bourne” after visiting the site recently. The IOC typically holds test games at the hockey venue — often junior international tournaments, sometimes a year in advance.
- This year’s test event was supposed to be a number of the U20 World Junior Championship games from Dec.
- 8-14, but the construction delay has prevented that from happening.
- It’ll now be the Italian Hockey League Serie A from Jan.
- 9-11 instead. The NHL has a vested interest in the Olympics.