[News] NHL and NHLPA discussing 2025 international competition and return to the Olympics

[Coach]

Really sucks for Flames fan that the move away from INTL tournaments coincided with our team having a lot of potential participants.

USA:
Gaudreau
Tkachuk
Hanafin

CAN:
Tanev? (Prob not, but really would be on any other INTL team)
Giordano
Brodie?
Hamilton?

SWE
Lindholm
Andersson
Markstrom
Backlund
Kylington?

RUS
Zadorov


When your whole core is Olympic calibre players, you should have a good time. I think some international experience for those players could have done wonders for them while they were here.

[IamNotKenKing]

Originally Posted by GirlySports

Soccer is U-23 where teams don't even have to release players if they don't want to.

nobody cares about the basketball world championships.

Nonetheless, these are two sports where both occur.

Also, I care about the basketball World Championships, and am quite interested to see how Canada fares, especially with this being potential Olympic qualifying for them.

[Samonadreau]

I dont really care about the World Cup of Hockey, but would love to see Pros back in the Olympics.

[GreenLantern2814]

Originally Posted by GirlySports

A. Is the NHL comfortable with the idea best-on-best tournaments without Russia?

B. Will there be proper qualifying? Will players be released for such qualifying?

C. Is the NHL willing to go the Olympics wherever that are being played? 2030 looks safe to be the US. SLC/Denver joint bid. But in the future, it could be Kazakhstan!

Beating Russia at hockey is good for world peace.

I don’t care what Putin is doing in Ukraine - you can’t argue it’s worse than whatever the Soviets were doing in 1972. Or 76. Or 80. Or 87.

The Russians get ideas that they’re better at hockey than the rest of us, it’s bad for business. They invaded Ukraine two days after failing to defend their gold medal.

Thanks, Finland. You set them off on the wrong foot. You saved the world.

[FireGilbert]

Would love more international hockey. Here is my solution:

-Take a 3 week international break every February. Ditch the All Star game.

-Olympics in Olympic years.

-World Cup in non Olympic even years.

-Odd years are for tournament qualifications and friendlies.

[dino7c]

Originally Posted by Coach

Really sucks for Flames fan that the move away from INTL tournaments coincided with our team having a lot of potential participants.

USA:
Gaudreau
Tkachuk
Hanafin

CAN:
Tanev? (Prob not, but really would be on any other INTL team)
Giordano
Brodie?
Hamilton?

SWE
Lindholm
Andersson
Markstrom
Backlund
Kylington?

RUS
Zadorov


When your whole core is Olympic calibre players, you should have a good time. I think some international experience for those players could have done wonders for them while they were here.

Gio and Brodie? That's a stretch

[Coach]

Originally Posted by dino7c

Gio and Brodie? That's a stretch

For a time. Gio should have been on the 2014 team IMO. Then there was no 2018 team, Gio won the Norris the following season. I think he would have made a strong case to be on the 2018 team. Brodie arguably as good at the time and there was a history of taking players with built in chemistry.

Point is, these guys all missed even the opportunity of it out there which I think would have really sucked as they watch their peers get those shots earlier or as kids watching their favourite players in the 1998-2014 games (mostly 2002 and 2010).

[TheIronMaiden]

Originally Posted by bdubbs

My most memorable recent hockey moment was the 2010 Gold medal game with Iggy feeding Sid for the Golden Goal. It's tough being a Flames fan, but the best of Team Canada is a nice consolation prize to cheer for.

recent? man that was 13 years ago!

[CroFlames]

Copy what soccer does.

[Moneyhands23]

Start it early September and shorten training camp/preseason.

[SutterBrother]

Olympics was a great idea that has now been taken over by grifters and authoritarian states.

Time to stop attending and viewing and come up with something new for best on best.

[GirlySports]

Originally Posted by FireGilbert

Would love more international hockey. Here is my solution:

-Take a 3 week international break every February. Ditch the All Star game.

-Olympics in Olympic years.

-World Cup in non Olympic even years.

-Odd years are for tournament qualifications and friendlies.

NHL owners don't want to shutdown the season once every four years let alone every year. American markets do the best in February (no football, no baseball)

[troutman]

Originally Posted by Samonadreau

I dont really care about the World Cup of Hockey, but would love to see Pros back in the Olympics.

I didn’t watch one minute of last World Cup. Team Young Guns! Was that on Nickelodeon?

[CroFlames]

Originally Posted by troutman

I didn’t watch one minute of last World Cup. Team Young Guns! Was that on Nickelodeon?

It was a gimmick, no doubt... but one of the most entertaining teams there.

[bdubbs]

Originally Posted by TheIronMaiden

recent? man that was 13 years ago!

This one was more so because I was out with a bunch of friends watching the game and the euphoria after Canada won it was just unmatched. Since then, not much has given the same amount of excitement.

[TheIronMaiden]

Originally Posted by bdubbs

This one was more so because I was out with a bunch of friends watching the game and the euphoria after Canada won it was just unmatched. Since then, not much has given the same amount of excitement.

The life of a Flames fan

[cam_wmh]

F*** the IOC & the Olympics

[dino7c]

Originally Posted by Coach

For a time. Gio should have been on the 2014 team IMO. Then there was no 2018 team, Gio won the Norris the following season. I think he would have made a strong case to be on the 2018 team. Brodie arguably as good at the time and there was a history of taking players with built in chemistry.

Point is, these guys all missed even the opportunity of it out there which I think would have really sucked as they watch their peers get those shots earlier or as kids watching their favourite players in the 1998-2014 games (mostly 2002 and 2010).

Brodie would have never made team Canada, come on now

Gio in a small window maybe

[Locke]

Originally Posted by cam_wmh

F*** the IOC & the Olympics

Preach my friend.

And I know Cam. We're soccer fans (despite team affiliation differences). But the IOC is one of the only sporting organizations as corrupt as FIFA.

[Coach]

Originally Posted by dino7c

Brodie would have never made team Canada, come on now

Gio in a small window maybe

Sweet. Well I listed 13 other players. It's pondering of a parallel, non-existent reality. We don't all have to agree.