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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
Was there a point in having Olympic hockey before pros were allowed to participate? I think there was. Canadians still tuned in to watch. The medals still counted.
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The makeup of those teams was different though.
The US and Canadian teams were actually teams that trained together and were built over time. Not thrown together at the last second.
And outside of the North America you had the very best in the world so moments like the Miracle on Ice were possible.
So yeah those medals counted. And these do too, but this is more like watching replacement players in the NFL back in the day. Was that much fun to watch?