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Originally Posted by Alberta_Beef
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.
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You maybe correct. However, the Olympics is supposed to be the pinnicale of sport (seperate debate), at the pinnicale you should find thew best the sport has to offer.
I posted earlier in this thread that I can't understand why hockey does not have a regular ( every year, or two, or four) tourney of natioanl teams best on best.
I think it was Girlysports that posted about the money that flows back into the owners of the legues/teams that have players playing in the World Cup.
If they NHL isn't going to go to the Olympics fine. However, if the NHL doesn't support a regular National best on best tourney, they are ####ing stupid IMO.
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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.
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This deminishes the effort of the Finns, and slights them by saying they don't have the goal of winning Gold at the outset, which I think is wrong.