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Originally Posted by butterfly
As long as it's all the same players, what's the difference? I'm sure they'd all prefer to be in Europe or North America than do whatever the IOC wants.
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An Olympic Gold medal is much more coveted than the gross glass-thing that the NHL hands out. Most players will say that it's second only to winning a Stanley Cup. As a result, the level of play is much closer to play-off hockey, rather than the slightly-better-than-exhibition level of hockey that we see during the World Cup.