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Originally Posted by MrMike
I’m too young to really understand what the Canada Cup or even World Cup really were, but why did we stop doing tournaments such as this? I always see the highlights of Lemieux playing with Gretzky in the late 80s? Was that not an equivalent of world best on best?
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They decided that the Olympics would be better. And to continue a World Cup would take away from the Olympics.
I also think there has always been problems with the World Cup, 1996, 2004 and 2016. Have never quite gotten it all together. 1996 was a rebranding. Remember the Canada Cup was an invitational tournament by Hockey Canada and Alan Eagleson.