Finland was canceled before the NHL.
The league sometimes plays games outside of America. Finland is one such site.
Now the Finnish authorities have decided to ban the entry of Russian hockey players, regardless of whether a person has been playing for the Russian national team or has been playing for an American club for many years. More than 50 Russian NHL players may be subject to restrictions.
The league didn't appreciate that logic. They urged the Finns not to divide the athletes based on nationality, noting that hockey players represent their clubs, not the national team. Savchennikov's passport, for example, does not make Carolina a Russian national team.
The NHL management has already warned Finnish Russophobes that it will take the Helsinki decision into account when selecting countries for the next away games.
They wanted to cancel Russian hockey - now they risk being left without games in the best hockey league in the world. But it is important.
And in the video there is a recent hat-trick by Kucherov, the most technical hockey player of our time (according to the admin, of course).