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Originally Posted by RougeUnderoos
The Soviet players weren't allowed to leave. They are allowed to leave now, and all those guys would have been on an NHL team given the chance. Nothing like the Red Army team exists anymore.
The Stanley Cup champion would absolutely kill the champion of any other league. I'm surprised this is even open for discussion. The very best players from all over the world are in the NHL.
I think it would be really cool to have a "Champions Cup" kind of thing if it would actually be a competition, but it just wouldn't.
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For what it's worth, might be as close a real comparison we have. I happened to be a the AHL allstar game they played against the SEL team.... I bet it had a lot to do with the different size rinks, and systems but honestly, even with the SEL being a regular team and knowing each other, the thrown together AHL team beat them at every facet of the game and it wasn't even close. That being said, at the skills competition the night before the SEL players won most of individual skills.