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Originally Posted by undercoverbrother
Could we move past just the Olympics as a show case?
If Hockey doesn't try to showcase the best thing about the sport, skill/speed/size via a Nation on Nation tourney with the best players from each country playing it will never grow...IMO
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Yup.. it's very hard to start a tournament. When the World Cup started in 1930 people thought it was a dumb idea. We already have the 1924 and 1928 Olympics, why create this? When the European Cup (now Champions League) was created people thought it was a dumb idea until Real Madrid put on a show and won the first 5 installments. More recently people are saying the World Baseball Classic is a dumb idea. But it will grow baseball.
Which is why it was a shame that hockey had something good like the Canada Cup (later World Cup) and then just turfed it for no reason.