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Originally Posted by combustiblefuel
We Hold the Olympic hockey in higher Status. Europeans/Russians do not see it that way. The World Championship is like them winning the Stanley cup.
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How they perceive it and what it is are different.
Celebrating a win in a tournament where the only team that actually brought it's top players was Russia. Was there even any Canadian Olympians on the WC team? They can be excited all they want, but when it's the third best award handed out during the year for the sport of hockey, in a tournament where very few of the best players actually compete, accepting that Benz should come with a very nice slice of humble pie.
And guaranteed if the Russians had won the Olympics, they would certainly be celebrating it as the top prize and rubbing everyones noses in it.