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Originally Posted by Jay Random
They're not doing it for revenue. They're doing it for prestige and propaganda. They already knew going in that it would cost them gobs of money.
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Exactly. If China medals against the non-NHL or neutered NHL rosters of the big 5 nations, that's another feather in the CCP's bag of propaganda.
Chinese people wouldn't know or care that it was a meaningless win with a Team China full of foreigners or that it wasn't a best-on-best competition. However, they are fiercely nationalistic and they would care that "China Number 1" because they beat the perennial hockey powers.