Hockey fans have waited more than a decade to see NHL players return to the Winter Olympics – and, in a shocking turn of events, they might have to wait even longer.

Despite the much-heralded announcement that the stars of the NHL would return to the Games at the 2026 Olympics in Milano-Cortina, Italy, a major roadblock has been put in the way just three months before players are set to take the ice.

That roadblock: The rink has yet to be completed and Games organizers are unsure if it will be done in time.

NHL deputy commissioner Bill Daly was asked by Matt Larkin of the Daily Faceoff about the rink issues and the chance that NHLers wouldn’t in fact be headed to Italy in February.

“Depends on the percentage you want to place on the possibility the rink doesn’t get completed,” Daly

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