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Originally Posted by JiriHrdina
Worse performing by what criteria? Points? A poor basis for assessment.
Team Canada is held to an impossible standard but the program still wins most of the critical tournaments. The world juniors is one of the toughest tournaments as it is for the most part best on best - and when you start to isolate to that small a player group from each country - you have a lot of nations that can offer up similar talent levels. It is very competitive.
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There also aren't any other countries who have to play the tournament without 4 or 5 of their best players because they are in the NHL