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Originally Posted by GreenLantern2814
Soccer has Euro and the World Cup. Why don't we? Figure it out.
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Because the NHL won't take the necessary steps or struggles to grow a tournament. They want the big bucks now. They wanted a cash grab in 2016, thus the TNA U23 and Europe team. They didn't Switzerland or Slovakia in it.
Also, they're fighting with the IIHF and the IOC. The NHL poo poo's on the World Championships every year.
Soccer had it's struggles in the early days. The World Cup was interrupted by WWII after 3 editions then hosted in Brazil 1950 to give time for Europe to rebuild. Everything from the World Cup to Euros to Champions League started small and even risked collapsing before it grew to the heights that it is now.