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Originally Posted by Table 5
What exactly does he, or the Flames, have to lose by going? A handful of games out of 82? What will he gain from those 3 games that he won't get from the rest of the season? The upside might not be as huge as some of us say, but I just don't see the downside of not going.
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Okay but I don't see the upside in him going.
He'll go down, adjust to a slower paced game, then have to come back to the NHL and adjust again to the faster paced game. Yes, at the end of the day it won't matter but it all seems pointless to me. He's in the NHL, that's the goal, keep playing him there.
If the World Juniors wasn't such a fun tournament for fans to watch would anyone really care? Would anyone be insisting he gets sent?
I'd imagine no.