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Originally Posted by nfotiu
There's no way that anyone outside of Canada is going to watch or care about a world cup of hockey in the summer. They'd have one or two and abandon it again. Pulling NHLers out of the Olympics would be the end of meaningful best against best international hockey for many years.
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Unlikely on both counts.
Certainly Canadians would care a lot more than any other nation, but Americans, Russians, Swedes, etc. would watch.
The Canada Cup/original World Cup were "meaningful best on best" tournaments held in September. Just because you don't like it doesn't mean these nations won't take it as seriously in the future as they did in the past. (give or take the early Soviet teams.)