Let's establish the program, let's establish the World Cup of Hockey Back and let's have a forward-looking

schedule to see so people can be consistent with it. Fans love it, players love it, it's

important for us to do it. I think that right now commenting on

what's going on in the world I mean anything can things can change and things can

different things can happen so I think it's a little too it's a little too early to

talk about you know who's involved in the tournament

or not but I think we should get the tournament on paper and get the concept

written more than a concept start the conversation really get it going moving

forward and what this will look like and then obviously we

have to deal with challenges that might come up as time goes on.

That is the very Boston sounding.

Marty Walsh, the new executive director of the NHL Players Association yesterday talking about one of the hot button issues around players now escrow is obviously always a hot button issue around players but one of the front burner issues for the for the N.

players going back to last season and getting shut down and not going to the Olympics is

international hockey and that was one of the things that Marty Walsh was

asked about at his opening press conference yesterday, amid reporters both on Zoom and live in Toronto.

You know, it's interesting. This has been become very much a player-driven initiative players very much wanted to go last season, as we all know when Crosby was

excited about playing with McDavid and Nathan McKinnon and Mitch Marner and you

know their American counterparts were were the same to say nothing of all the European players.

But this one, you know, international hockey, geez, international hockey with the

NHL has always been kind of like trying to hold a handful of sand

The intentions have always been there, but executing has always been a challenge now if you're from my vintage you grew up in those Halcyon

international hockey days of a schedule that saw not just the world

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