NHL players are not accommodating in the Winter Olympics

The actual acumen Dominic Toninato banned to NHL Coins assurance with Toronto is why the Minnesota built-in is not acceptable to play for Aggregation USA at the PyeongChang Winter Olympics. The Leafs abandoned offered Toninato an American Hockey Alliance arrangement abide summer, so he chose to play the “college card” and become an complete chargeless abettor Aug. 16.

Toninato, a four-year Minnesota-Duluth standout who served as aggregation captain abide analysis as a senior, eventually alive his NHL entry-level arrangement with the Avalanche, a move that abandoned his Olympic eligibility. At the time, Toninato wasn’t cerebration advanced to the Olympics. He was all about arena in the NHL.

“Didn’t even cantankerous my mind,” he said of the Olympics. “I’m blessed with the bearings I’m in. I couldn’t ask to be on a bigger aggregation and I’m actual blessed with the befalling I’ve been given. I like breadth I’m at.”

For the aboriginal time aback 1994, alive NHL players aren’t accommodating in the Winter Olympics. Abandoned European professionals and those on North American bush contracts, as able-bodied as amateurs like University of Denver inferior Troy Terry of Highlands Ranch, are eligible. Toninato, who adjoin Terry and the Pioneers in the 2017 NCAA championship bold in Chicago, angry down that opportunity, although there was no acceding he would accept been called by USA Hockey.