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Report: IOC agrees to cover NHL player insurance costs

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The NHL and International Olympic Committee haven’t finalized an agreement to bring NHL players to the 2014 Olympic Games, but a huge hurdle to that is about to be cleared.

CBC’s Elliotte Friedman reported on last night’s Hotstove that the IOC has agreed to cover the cost of insurance for NHL players to play next year in Sochi. There are other issues left to be taken care of, but CBC’s Glenn Healy says the IIHF has the league’s proposal and now it’s up to both sides to figure out the rest of the issues.

Healy and P.J. Stock say issues like family tickets and accommodations are still being haggled over and the costs are five times what they normally would be thanks to the out-of-the-way location. That said, the cost of making sure the players and NHL teams were protected from injury abroad was the biggest sticking point. With that out of the way, it appears we’ll see pros in the Olympics yet again.