Breaking: The NHLPA has officially responded to the NHL's Olympic offer.

NHLPA gives an official response to the NHL.

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Breaking: The NHLPA has officially responded to the NHL's Olympic offer.
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The National Hockey League extended a proposal to the National Hockey League Players Association last month that would guarantee their participation at the 2018 Winter Olympics to be held in Pyeongchang, South Korea. The condition of course was that the current collective bargaining agreement between the two sides would be extended for an additional three years.

On Friday the NHLPA firmly rejected that offer, once again leaving the participation of NHL players at the 2018 Olympics in serious doubt. The NHLPA's executive director Donald Fehr said that the NHLPA's executive board and the players had no interest in the proposal put forth by the NHL but added that he hopes "we'll still be able to conclude an agreement to go to the Olympics," as per Jonas Siegel of the Canadian Press.

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With the current state of high escrow payments for players under the existing collective bargaining agreement, there was little hope that the NHLPA would agree to his offer, and in many ways it came off as a public relations move from the NHL. There's still time to find a way to make this whole Olympic scenario work out on all sides, but it's starting to look like a very real possibility that the NHL will not send their players to Korea in 2018.

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