A Bad Hockey Team Complicates China’s Rise to Superpower Status
- Team China will get shellacked by U.S., Canada in winter games
- Former NHL players with Chinese roots wait for call to help
With seven months until the Beijing Winter Olympics, Brandon Yip thought he’d be on the ice with the Chinese national hockey team by now.
Instead, the former National Hockey League right wing is home in Boston, watching the Stanley Cup playoffs and fantasizing about helping China at least save face. Winning is probably out of the question. But still, Yip says, he’d like to try.