Yes, the NHL shuts down for two weeks during this time. It's due to many of the NHL's star players participating in the Winter Olympics.
There are no Summer Olympics in 2014. They will next be held in 2016 in Brazil, alternating by 2 years with the Winter Olympics.
As of October 2023, NHL players have participated in the Winter Olympics in ice hockey five times: in 1998, 2002, 2006, 2010, and 2014. However, NHL players did not participate in the 2018 PyeongChang Olympics. The most recent Winter Olympics, held in Beijing in 2022, also saw the absence of NHL players due to scheduling conflicts. Thus, NHL professionals have represented Team USA in Olympic ice hockey a total of five times.
The 2014 Winter Olympics is going to be held in Sochi, Russia.
There are no Summer Olympics in 2014. The next Summer games will be in 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Sochi, Russia in 2014.
The 2012 Summer Olympics will be held in London, England. And the 2014 Winter Olympics will be held in Chicago, Illinois.
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There will be no game in 2010, because of the change in the collective bargaining agreement, and the fact that it is an Olympic year, as it will mark the first time that an NHL city has hosted an Olympics since the NHL allowed its players to participate in Olympics, as Vancouver hosts the Winter Olympics; the opening ceremony there is scheduled to take place February 12, 2010.
The 2014 Winter Olympics are going to be held in Sochi, Russia. Sochi beat out the other contenders of Pyeonchang, South Korea (now the 2018 Winter Olympics Site) and Salzburg, Austria.
There aren't any NHL rules during the Olympics. The refs use International Hockey rules
Germany has 153 athletes participating in the Sochi 2014 Olympics.