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Originally Posted by goodyear
As far as international hockey goes, the biggest stage should be the Olympics.
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It actually the other way around. Only sports that can't hack it in the real world make the Olympics their top event.
Sports where their Olympic version sucks - Soccer and Tennis
Sports where there isn't even an Olympic version - Baseball, Football, Rugby, Cricket
Sport where Olympics and World Cup are the same: Basketball (although they are trying to make the World Cup bigger)
Hockey had an event (Canada Cup/World Cup) that most sports dream about having and threw it away to go backwards into the Olympics. Baseball is now trying with the WBC and it's not even close.
It's hard to recover something you've lost. Hockey will struggle to recover the World Cup after a 12 year absence.
That said, Have two more teams Quebec and the Rest of Europe.
Although I'm not sure what the Rest of Europe national anthem would be!