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Originally Posted by undercoverbrother
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.
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And without NHL players fans realize how awesome the game is even without the best players in the world.
They will know they aren't the best players in the world and seek out the NHL to see how great the game can be.
It works either way. IMO NHLers in the Olympics really only makes 1 difference. Jerseys sold with names on them instead of without.
edit: I also want to add this.... If there were no NHL players in the bronze medal game today I doubt you see the US lay the egg they did. Teams like Canada and the US only care about gold, the bronze means nothing to them. They have the Stanley Cup mentality where only 1 prize matters.