Kin
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losveratos said:
Except I don't think there's much of a disagreement regarding the sentiment here. If your point is that hockey fans like seeing NHLers at the Olympics, I agree. If your point is that private companies in general should act more in the interest of the people of the world and beless about their own profits, I mean, I'd start with Walmart and your various Oil companies around the world before the NHL but sure, what the heck, I'm on board there too.
If your point, however, is that the popular sentiment of that should dictate what a private business like a NHL team is legally or morally obligated to do then, while I sympathize with the idea, it strikes me as a little pollyanna-ish. This isn't the end of It's a Wonderful Life.
The presence of NHLers at the Olympics is, at it's heart, a dispute between two groups of people I have genuinely no time for and in that dispute between two reprehensible parties, I'm not going to act like only one is acting out of pure self-interest. If the IOC is going to be obstinate with the NHL and not be open to a more mutually beneficial arrangement then it only follows that the NHL is going to look after their own interests.
