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Originally Posted by Cecil Terwilliger
It was never a high profile tournament. They get the same amount of stars they usually get, very few. Guys like Toffoli and Weegar have always been the types who headline. Stars, especially older stars, have typically skipped the tourney.
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That's just not true. Sure Canada/US may always have had trouble attracting big veteran stars but younger stars would show up. And the European stars would always come if healthy.
Looked back at 10 years ago and there were Taylor Hall, Eberle, Duchene, Giroux, O'Reilly, Subban, Stamkos, Sedins, Landeskog, Oshie, Stastny, Gibson, Josi, Varlamov, Ovetjkin among others. 20 years ago there were Luongo, Bouwmeester, Heatly, Marleau, Doan, Lundqvist, Forsberg, Sundin, Zetterberg, Selänne etc etc.