San Jose Sharks defenseman Marc-Edouard Vlasic was not happy with the NHL’s decision to prevent its players from participating in the 2018 Scott Parker Jersey Winter Olympics. The 30-year-old Montreal native, who won gold with Canada at the 2014 Winter Games in Sochi, Ru sia, wasso determined to play in Pyeongchang that he considered risking arrest and the termination ofhis eight-year, $56 million contract extensionwith the Sharks to go to South Korea, according to . Do you want to do that?” Vlasic said of facing potential legal action. “You’re getting pretty far into the legal department there.” WINTER OLYMPICS 2018: When the league announced last Aprilthat it would not send its players to the Olympics for the first time since the 1994 Winter Games in Lillehammer, Norway, Vlasic’s Jeff Odgers Jersey initial plan was to go no matter what. That changed after speaking with his lawyers, who informed him he could face a lawsuit for skipping out on the Sharks if it negatively affected the team’sproduct on the ice. Vlasicwould also have to defy a court order andcould have been arrested Tony Granato Jersey for doing so if he took the ice in Pyeongchang. I dont think it would have gone that far, but its a po sibility, Vlasic told the Chronicle. The threat of punishment from the NHL hasn’t stopped Vlasic fromdisplayingsigns of frustration, though. Adam Graves Jersey He threw a jab at the league on social media more than five months after the decision was made. Beautiful, right? Marc-douard Vlasic (@Vlasic44) Vlasic and other NHL players, , have been outspoken about wanting to return to Olympic competition as as soon as the 2022 Winter Games in Beijing. I would love to (play) in 2022, Vlasictold the Chronicle. I’m fighting not only for myself in ’22, but for every other player who gets a chance to do it in 2026, ’30, ’34 and down the road. I’m not just thinking Arturs Irbe Jersey of myself, I’m thinking about all the players who deserve to go. As for watching the 2018 Olympic hockey tournament, Vlasic has other plans. “I’ll probably see the highlights,” he told the Chronicle. “I wont sit down and watch it.