‘A Big Task’: China’s Olympic Hockey Team Facing Questions

Kunlun Red Star's team players celebrate after they won the Kontinental Hockey League match against Spartak Moscow, in Moscow, Russia, on Oct. 1, 2016. Pavel Golovkin/AP Photo

International hockey officials are hoping to avoid a Humiliation On Ice when the Chinese men’s national team debuts at the Beijing Winter Olympics.

They begged the NHL to send players to the Games in China, but now they are worried that the home team might not even be able to score a goal.