Canada’s NHL Stars Abandon Olympic Village—What’s Really Behind the Sudden Hotel Switch?
“I’ve had some great times hanging out with the rest of the athletes, playing cards, watching the other Olympians,” Matthew Tkachuk said. “It’s been just an unbelievable experience.”
While much has been made of the Canadians’ hotel move, the team’s general manager Doug Armstrong downplayed its significance, noting that the players stayed elsewhere during the 2010 Winter Games in Vancouver and in 2014 in Sochi.
“They’ve stayed with their families. They have a room in the village, they have a room provided by the NHL and NHLPA outside there,” Armstrong said, according to The Post’s Mollie Walker. “I think this has sort of grown a life of its own. This is no different than the tournaments we had before. We just wanted to give our players that option to stay where they’re most comfortable to prepare for the games.”
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