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Originally Posted by bubbsy
My issues with this tournament :
1. It's an attempt to create a national interest similar to the Olympics, without any real history or drama.
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Originally Posted by Zarley
I don't care about where the money goes, my problem is that the tournament is a joke with made up teams, no history, and nothing at stake.
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I feel like I've stepped into an alternate reality where the Canada Cup and World Cup wasn't a highly anticipated best-on-best international tournament featuring the best players in the world playing their hearts out. Where the '87 Canada Cup - regarded by many people, including Gretzky, as the best hockey they've ever seen played - didn't happen. Where the '96 World Cup wasn't the inauguration of an era when Canada and the U.S. became bitter hockey rivals.
Just because something doesn't have any personal history with you doesn't mean it doesn't have any history. Best-on-best international hockey happened before professionals started participating in the Olympics. And it was fantastic hockey.