11-12-2021, 01:28 PM
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Hockey officials worried the Chinese men's team will be humiliated @ the Olympics
https://apnews.com/article/nhl-sport...ign=SocialFlow
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International hockey officials are hoping to avoid a Humiliation On Ice when the Chinese men’s national team debuts at the Beijing Winter Olympics.
They begged the NHL to send players to the Games in China, but now they are worried that the home team might not even be able to score a goal.
The host nation automatically qualifies for every sport at the Olympics, but the Chinese men’s lineup — with a handful of naturalized Americans and Canadians — will face off against virtual NHL all-star teams from Canada and the United States in the first round. The International Ice Hockey Federation fears historic blowouts could hurt Olympic hockey’s image, especially after persuading the NHL to take a two-week break to allow the world’s top players to compete.
To figure out how it might all go down, the IIHF is holding an unusual test next week in Moscow, where players on the Chinese team will play against Russian professionals and attempt to be competitive. It’s not clear what might happen if the team plays as poorly as it has in recent games, which raised fears that it might not score even once on home ice in front of its own fans.
Ice hockey is not a popular sport in China, with no pro or significant amateur league. After China won the right to host the Games, an academy was set up to nurture young talent, and Chinese officials went around the world looking for players with Chinese ancestry — or who were willing to naturalize there — who could join the team.
But China’s men’s team is ranked 32nd in the world, and it is in a group with the U.S. and Canada, two of the medal favorites among the 12 teams going to the Winter Games in February. It has struggled against other competition.
That’s why new IIHF president Luc Tardif scheduled the games in Moscow, where the Beijing-based Kontinental Hockey League team Kunlun Red Star — which has been used as something of a proxy for the Chinese national team to get experience in a professional league — will play against Russian opponents.
IIHF and Chinese hockey officials will be watching closely, in person and online, and hoping the team isn’t on its way to being embarrassed against NHL competition in February.
“The team we will have in front of us, in two games, we will just to see the score and the way the game was playing, we will quickly know if they’ve got the level or not,” Tardif told The Associated Press in a recent interview. “It will be not only the score but the way the game was played.”
It’s unclear who will grade this test — or how. The IIHF said last week it will not remove China from the tournament — it does not have the unilateral authority to do that — and it would be up to the Chinese government to pull the plug.
That would be a humiliating step: A host country’s team has never been withdrawn from the modern-day Olympics for solely performance-related reasons, according to Olympic historian Bill Mallon.
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11-12-2021, 01:34 PM
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Crash and Bang Winger
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Poor China... Do they want a participation medal instead?
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11-12-2021, 01:43 PM
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Humiliation is like growing pains.
It's fine.
I'm actually more interested in seeing China's team than I would be in seeing Norway's team.
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11-12-2021, 01:46 PM
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beer-league level players will get to play against NHLers at the Olympics
Sounds like a thrill of a lifetime
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11-12-2021, 01:46 PM
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Humiliation is guaranteed and to be expected for a country that is new to hockey at the international level.
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11-12-2021, 01:47 PM
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Maybe China will hold 2 Canadians in the penalty box the entire time.
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11-12-2021, 01:48 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by 1qqaaz
Humiliation is like growing pains.
It's fine.
I'm actually more interested in seeing China's team than I would be in seeing Norway's team.
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Its going to be like a Spengler Cup team, just a collection of whoever they can get.
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11-12-2021, 01:48 PM
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Good. Bury them.
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11-12-2021, 01:52 PM
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So in other words like women's hockey when Canada and the US face the rest of the world?
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11-12-2021, 01:56 PM
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Originally Posted by PaperBagger'14
Maybe China will hold 2 Canadians in the penalty box the entire time.
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Or maybe the U.S will hold one Chinese player in the Canadian penalty box the whole time.
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11-12-2021, 01:57 PM
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Scoring Winger
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not a big deal. China gets regularly humiliated in soccer, a sport where there is a national league. They've qualified for the World Cup once, and couldn't score a goal. This isn't any different.
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11-12-2021, 01:58 PM
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Crash and Bang Winger
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Based on the article, the China team could be made up of mostly non-chinese players? Seems like the IIHF is more worried about this issue than anyone else, especially since they want to promote and market hockey in China. I don't think getting blown out 20-0 by Canada/USA will help that cause.
I guess if your Spencer Foo or Brandon Yip, this would be an opportunity of a life time regardless of how badly they get their asses handed to them. I'm sure the players on that team will be happy just to be there.
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11-12-2021, 02:01 PM
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I hope we make them bleed.
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Last edited by GreenLantern2814; 11-12-2021 at 02:19 PM.
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11-12-2021, 02:03 PM
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Speaking as a Chinaman, I wholeheartedly think this is a bitch move and hope that they suck it up and get trainwrecked 20-0 every single game
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11-12-2021, 02:05 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Gaskal
Speaking as a Chinaman, I wholeheartedly think this is a bitch move and hope that they suck it up and get trainwrecked 20-0 every single game
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Is this China themselves or more the IIHF being worried about the blowouts?
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11-12-2021, 02:09 PM
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So if (when) they get run out if the rink by KHL players, what then? Like, I can't see a solution to this problem, aside from just sitting them out.
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11-12-2021, 02:11 PM
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Spencer Foo will make sure to score a Hatty on Canada
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11-12-2021, 02:13 PM
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See if we can win by four converted touchdowns.
Sweet revenge for the two Michaels.
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11-12-2021, 02:14 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Knightslayer
Or maybe the U.S will hold one Chinese player in the Canadian penalty box the whole time.
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Hahaha so make it permanently 4 v 3 for China in all Canada vs. China games. Would still be a blowout for the Canadians LOL
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11-12-2021, 02:16 PM
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Too bad. Don’t put a team in then. This isn’t peewee hockey, this is one of the highest levels of competition in the world. Grow up a bit.
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