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Originally Posted by Wormius
Unrelated, but what does the NHL get out of the Olympics? I'd be happy if the NHL didn't send players at all. It should be amateur athletes. It's almost as bad as the NBA sending players to the Olympics, but at least other countries have good hockey players.
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As quaint as Victorian thinking was, that particular queen died well over a century ago. In my view, the Olympics should be about who is the best, not about who is the best of an artificially limited pool.
Which, incidentally, is why I oppose any boycotts. What you really accomplish is to cheapen the Games themselves into a sham while history has shown that political impact of such has been close to nil.