Does China’s ice hockey squad face an Olympic-sized embarrassment at 2022 Winter Games in Beijing?

National Hockey League players are set to lace up their skates for a return to the Winter Olympics in 2022 in Beijing. The anticipated talent from the world’s sixth-biggest sporting league is great news for the International Olympic Committee. But as the SCMP’s Patrick Blennerhassett points out, the top skaters could end up giving host China’s men’s ice hockey team a rough time at the tournament.