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Originally Posted by TheScorpion
Of course they weren't. They were all on the U23 team, many of them hadn't even been drafted in 2014 and all of them except MacKinnon and Rielly weren't close to cracking NHL lineups.
Auston Matthews was 16 when those Olympics began. McDavid had just turned 17. Ekblad turned 18 the day of the Opening Ceremony.
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Well duh but that's missing the point. No one cared who wasn't there because they cared about watching Canada. The only time people discuss who wasn't there, is when a team loses and they think it is because the GM made bad selections.
the overwhelming majority of hockey fans didn't say that 2014 or 2010 etc Olympic hockey was boring because they didn't get to watch player x. They didn't give a crap because they got to watch exciting world hockey.