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TORONTO -- International Ice Hockey Federation President Rene Fasel feels better about the chances of having NHL players compete at the 2018 Olympics in South Korea than he did earlier this year. The league doesnt sound nearly as confident and may be looking six years ahead to China instead.In May at the IIHF world championship, Fasel said he thought there was a 60 percent chance the NHL and NHL Players Association would pass on the opportunity to participate in a sixth straight Olympics. Whether the best hockey players in the world go to South Korea in about 16 months is up to the league and union, though Russian star Alexander Ovechkin of the Washington Capitals has said he will go no matter what .I think it is 50-50 chance, Fasel told The Associated Press on Tuesday ahead of Game 1 of the World Cup of Hockey final.NHL officials, however, sounded an ominous tone.Time is very short to make a decision and Im not sure there has been a lot of progress made in the past six months, and Im not sure theres any prospect for progress being made, Deputy Commissioner Bill Daly said. On the basis on that, Im more negative today than I was two weeks ago.Money is a big factor in the deliberations.NHL players have not and will not get paid for participating in the Olympics, but their travel expenses and insurance have been covered in the past. The International Olympic Committee is not expected to pay for travel and insurance costs to get NHL players to the previous five Olympics.The IOCs position, obviously, didnt make it any easier, NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman said.The IOC spent about $14 million to cover travel and insurance costs for NHL players for the 2014 Olympics. Fasel expects the bill would be about $10 million for the next Olympics because he said it wont be necessary to charter planes to South Korea as it was to get players to Sochi, Russia.While the league doesnt sound eager about going to South Korea, it does sound very interested in tapping into Chinas huge market in 2022.When the IOC awarded the Beijing Games, it certainly created a bigger opportunity than we thought existed potentially before, Daly said. But it is also possible that you dont go to one Olympics and you do go to the other. I dont think anybody has ruled that out as a possibility.Fasel, saying he is simply at fan at the World Cup of Hockey in Toronto, intends to beg for $10 million to cover expenses for NHL players to be at the 2018 Olympics.He hopes to persuade national Olympic committees and hockey federations to donate the funds to keep the games best players on the biggest stage in sports. To make up the shortfall, Fasel acknowledged the IIHF could possibly use some of the $40 million it gets from the IOC every four years and make cuts from its development programs for boys and girls.Our job at the IIHF is find solution, Fasel said. I will go everywhere and anywhere to beg for the money. 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A source with knowledge of the discussions said that further progress had been made in coming to an agreement, but several logistical hurdles still needed to be overcome in order for the series to happen in Florida.The biggest one was the ability to secure visas to play in the USA. According to a source at the stadium, one issue that arose in the meetings was that it may take six weeks for India players to secure visas to get into the USA.The Central Broward Regional Park is the only ICC-certified ODI standard stadium facility in the USA and the only available dates that have been reserved for potential cricket use at the facility are from August 24-27, with August 28 potentially becoming available if another booking can agree to be moved..ddddddddddddThose dates were targeted by both cricket boards to play at the conclusion of the ongoing four-Test series, which is slated to end on August 22 in Trinidad.Immediate availability beyond that at the stadium is limited due to the stadiums main tenant, theFort Lauderdale Strikers, who play in the North American Soccer League, a second division league below Major League Soccer. The Strikers move into the stadium early next month as their new training base and venue for home games.The Strikers upcoming schedule includes home games on August 31, September 3 and September 10, leaving the stadium unavailable for cricket until at least mid-September. India is due to begin a three-Test series at home against New Zealand starting in Kanpur on September 22, making it unrealistic to play the games in the USA then.Further discussions between the BCCI and WICB will be held over the next few days before a final decision is taken whether to go ahead scheduling the matches. ' ' '