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Originally Posted by Alberta_Beef
Just curious, why is everyone so set on the perspective that without NHL players hockey doesn't get exposure?
Whether NHL players are there or not, hockey with be the premier sport and the only team sport. Games like the Canada/USA gold medal game for the women do as much to grow the game as having NHL players there. If the games are entertaining, the players play with heart and fight like they did then the game will continue to grow. That will happen with or without NHL players.
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I see it this way. With NHL players you get the best the sport has to offer. The best individual skill, the best unit skill, the best team skill.
New people to the sport will see these players and hopefully seek them out in the NHL to continue watching them display their skill.
When the world is watching don't you want, as a sporting body, to say this is ther best we have.