We’re finally watching Olympic best-on-best hockey for the first time in 12 years. And so far, it kind of rules.
The last time the league sent its players to an Olympics, I wrote a piece where I picked the ten best NHL Olympians. The idea was to weight both sides equally – NHL success, and Olympic success – and rank the best of the best. It's been so long that I’d completely forgotten about that piece, and only stumbled on it recently. And it kind of made me want to revisit it.
Of course, there’s a problem: All these years later, we don’t have much in the way of new information to work with.