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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
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.
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Yes it was fun to watch. I can only speak for myself but it was great because you could get behind Team Canada and hope they could beat the best the other countries had to offer. In this tourney it's tough for me to get behind Team Canada possibly play another team with Canadians on it. Same for the Americans. For me it's not the best every country has to offer, it's a few countries and a couple made up teams. It's no World Cup. But maybe it will be exciting, and I hope it is, because right now my excitement level for it is pretty much zero.