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Originally Posted by undercoverbrother
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 would be fine with a World Cup tournament, but I couldn't care less as it has no bearing on my belief that NHLers at the Olympics make little difference on the growth of the game.
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Originally Posted by undercoverbrother
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.
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You took that wrong. If anything what I am saying is a compliment to Finland.
I am saying teams like Canada and the USA don't adjust their goals after they are eliminated from gold contention, they just don't care anymore. Where as a team like Finland still cares about the bronze even though they weren't able to accomplish their overall goal.
Let's be honest here if Canada lost on Friday we wouldn't care half as much because in the words of Ricky Bobby, "If you ain't first, you're last." Quite frankly it's gold or bust for Canada and the USA.