{"id":341205,"date":"2025-12-11T07:33:34","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T07:33:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/341205\/"},"modified":"2025-12-11T07:33:34","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T07:33:34","slug":"nhl-players-will-not-compete-in-olympics-if-ice-deemed-unsafe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/341205\/","title":{"rendered":"NHL players will not compete in Olympics if ice deemed unsafe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If NHL players feel the quality of the ice at the upcoming Olympics in Milan isn&#8217;t safe, &#8220;then we&#8217;re not going to play,&#8221; NHL Deputy Commissioner Bill Daly said.<\/p>\n<p>As NHL players prepare to return to the Olympics for the first time since 2014, two issues have arisen around the Santagiulia Arena in Milan, where both men&#8217;s and women&#8217;s hockey is set to take place: the size of the surface rink and the quality of the ice.<\/p>\n<p>According to The Athletic, the 60-meter by 26-meter surface in Milan, approved by the International Ice Hockey Federation, is more than three feet shorter than the 200-foot length required in the NHL.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If NHL players feel the quality of the ice at the upcoming Olympics in Milan isn&#8217;t safe, &#8220;then&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":341206,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[189507,64,63,66992,575,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-341205","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-2026-milano-cortina-olympics","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-bill-daly","12":"tag-nhl","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=341205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341205\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/341206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}