Deadline Set for NHL’s Potential Involvement in the 2022 Olympics

Andrew Mazza of Manalapan, New Jersey is an experienced chef who is classically trained in Korean food and has worked at Seoul Fusion and Eat Clean Bro. A former high school hockey player, Andrew Mazza continues to play and watch the sport on a recreational basis.

While Hockey has been played at the Winter Olympics since 1924, the National Hockey League (NHL) and its players didn’t participate until 1998. The league continued to send players to the Olympics until the 2018 Games in Pyeongchang, South Korea, for which it cited logistical, cost, and travel concerns as reasons for its absence. The league is considering involvement in the 2022 Olympics in China and was recently given a deadline of August 2020 by International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) President Rene Fasel. This gives the IIHF a 17-month window to prepare for the Games. The NHL announced it wasn’t going to South Korea only 10 months prior to the 2018 Games.

According to Fasel, the North American teams in particular had difficulty preparing competitive teams for the 2018 Games without the inclusion of NHL players. While NHL players are in favor of playing in the 2022 Games, NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman has said the idea of a two-week break in the league’s schedule is “disruptive.”

Canada won three of the five gold medals in the Olympics in which NHL players participated. Czech Republic and Sweden won in 1998 and 2006, respectively, and the Olympic Athletes from Russia defeated Germany in the 2018 Gold Medal Game.

American Motorcycles

In 2008, New Jersey-based Andrew Mazza received his AA in Culinary Arts from Johnson and Wales University in Providence, Rhode Island. That led to his work as a professional chef with several food establishments in the New Jersey area, including 709, Seoul Fusion, and Eat Clean Bro. In addition to Asian and fusion cuisine, Andrew Mazza is also interested in motorcycles.

American motorcycles are still considered some of the best on the market, and there are many bikes made in the USA that do not fail to impress. Polaris is now the maker of Indian motorcycles, and it has created a retro classic Scout called the Scout Bobber that many motorcycle aficionados find noteworthy. While the output is relatively modest at only 100 horsepower, the chopped fenders, lowered suspension, and sporty footpegs combined with the throwback look make this bike an eyecatcher.

The LS-218 by Lightning Motorcycles is equally impressive with its 200 horsepower, zero-to-sixty miles per hour time of just two seconds. One of the fastest production bikes on the market that is street legal, the LS-218 can hit speeds of over 200 mph, and it is, surprisingly, electric.

The rare FA-13 Combat Bomber is the Confederate company’s most powerful motorcycle, combining state-of-the-art engineering with a steampunk/military look. Since this is the last internal combustion engine motorcycle this company will make, due to its new partnership with the electric motorcycle manufacturer Zero Motorcycles, it is highly collectible with an equally high price tag of over $150,000.

These are just a few of the top motorcycles American manufacturers are still producing that continue to make a strong impression on motorcycle enthusiasts everywhere.

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