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Originally Posted by vilzeh
The newest installment of World Cup was a complete joke because of: TEAM EUROPE & TEAM NA U-23.
Canada & USA didn't even get their best players because of that joke.
Team Europe had all the "outcasts", I mean Finland, Sweden, Czech Republic & Russia, they are from Europe also.
Zero excitement, the World Cup was held in the off-season, which lowers the excitement even further. Just a quick cash grab from NHL, just awful.
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I would argue that a number of great players wouldn't have been included at all but for Team Europe and Team NA. I'd rather watch a team with Chara, Neideraiter and Kopitar together than watch their countries get pummeled.
Team NA was pretty exciting and competitive, and ensured that guys like Scheifele got to play. At that time I'd argue only McDavid missed out on being on Team Canada. Gaudreau missed out on team USA. But that team was pretty bad anyway.