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Originally Posted by Mike F
So you'd be more excited if the tournament had Canada playing Germany, which would only be close if Germany trapped all of the offense out of the game, because that would be the best Canadians vs. the best Germans, rather than Canada vs. a team of the most exciting young players in the game?
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Yes I would.
What you're describing (in recent years) is the Olympics, which is a best on best format with countries playing against one another for true international hockey supremacy with an Olympic gold medal on the line.
The part about one of the possible match-ups in the above mentioned format being Canada against a lesser country in preliminary play takes nothing away from it and is just you being obtuse and or trying to trivialize what I'm getting at.
The fact that this current tournament can come down to a game winning goal against Canada being scored by a group of Canadians takes away some of the grandeur for me.
I fail to see what's so difficult to comprehend about that.