DK's Daily Shot of Penguins: Missing Olympics sad but also a boon locally

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4.6 • 832 Ratings

🗓️ 22 December 2021

⏱️ 19 minutes

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The National Hockey League decided to not afford players the opportunity to go to the Olympics this year because of concerns over COVID-19. While disappointing for the players, it's exciting and a plus for the local community in Pittsburgh. Hear award-winning columnist Dejan Kovacevic's Daily Shots of Steelers, Penguins and Pirates -- three separate podcasts -- every weekday morning on the DK Pittsburgh Sports podcasting network, available on all platforms: https://linktr.ee/dkpghsports Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This holiday season, Amazon brings you an unmissable month of festive football.
0:07.0	What a fantastic night of football.
0:10.0	Including 10 Premier League games.
0:13.0	It doesn't get much better than that.
0:17.0	And Tuesday's UEFA Champions League must watch match.
0:21.6	The biggest live games from the biggest leagues all wrapped up.
0:26.6	It's on Prime.
0:29.6	On one hand, you feel for Mike Sullivan, you feel for Sidney Crosby, you feel for a guy like Teddy Bluger.
0:49.4	And you think about what could have happened at the Beijing Olympics with NHL participation.
0:58.9	And on the other, there's the Pittsburgh perspective.
1:02.4	Good morning to you.
1:03.3	Good Wednesday morning.
1:04.2	I'm Dan Kovachievich of D.K. Pittsburgh Sports.
1:06.3	This is Daily Shot of Penguins.
1:07.9	It comes your way bright and early every weekday.
1:10.2	If you're into football and or baseball, I also offer up daily shots of penguins. It comes your way bright and early every weekday. If you're into
1:10.8	football and or baseball, I also offer up daily shots of Steelers and Pirates where you found this.
1:17.4	The NHL will not send its players to Beijing. All that's left to make that formal is the notification to the IOC, which is
1:31.6	expected this week. No, this isn't a surprise. No, there's really not much room to argue against it,
1:43.3	particularly once the Chinese government made known that anyone
1:47.6	who was going to test positive was going to be forced into a four-week quarantine.
1:53.9	I mean, that was the end.
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