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Originally Posted by bluejays
Any idea why only four teams were chosen for this tournament? Why not the Czechs, Slovaks and Germans?
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It's also not done with the IIHF so you need teams that have enough NHLers to build a full roster.
These four teams (and Russia) are the only countries that can do that right now.
Czech has 28 NHLers but only 4 dmen. Nobody else is close.
If Russia didn't have their political issues I think you could have seen 6 teams, with Finland, Canada, Russia, Sweden, USA, and a "Rest of the World" roster because that's really the only way to do it with only NHLers included.