>no NHL players
Why can't we have a proper international tournament
No NHL players
Anthony Diaz
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Leo Stewart
>Canada still on top
Doesn't matter desu
Christian Cooper
Its boring when the same countries make the final 100 years in a row
Lucas Jackson
Gary Bettman needed his shekels
Daniel Edwards
well then maybe other countries should gitgud at hockey.
John Sanchez
USA hasn't been that good even with the NHL players. Canada has been pretty hit and miss as well.
Nicholas Young
I think it's actually Finlan who suffers the most as we've medaled 4/5 NHL-included hockey olympics.
Bentley White
How? Canada won 3 of the last 4.
Anthony Nguyen
The NHL is too greedy
thats literally it
Ian Howard
But failed miserably in Nagano and Turin.
Carson Garcia
>14 nations
shouldn't be there, what a fucking joke
John Carter
t. country who just lost against Slovenian zamboni drivers.
Luis Ross
That's what you get when USA has the only relevant league and the international federation has no power over it. Same shit happens with basketball all the time.
Nolan Davis
South American football leagues are actually good comparison with top European ice hockey leagues: The absolute best have moved away but the leagues are still full of great players and talented prospects.
Justin Cook
we don't take orders from lesser countries
Joseph Hernandez
Except when we can't bring players to the olympics
Leo Bailey
Make a competitive product then
Grayson Taylor
its the ioc that doesnt want to share.
Ian Murphy
yeah it sucks
Ryan Wood
>Why can't we have a proper international tournament
Canada men would win.
Lincoln Campbell
Stop this meme. Canada has failed spectacularly even with the NHL players.
You do realize that everyone else, not only Canada and Usa, has their best players in the NHL?
Kevin Gomez
Not for long
Jayden Ross
>Stop this meme. Canada has failed spectacularly even with the NHL players.
They absolutely have, but they've been far and away the best team the last two Olympics, and they still have the same core group of players. Their defensemen are dominant.
Gabriel Cook
>they still have the same core group of players
no they don't. last Olympics was all NHL guys.
Hunter Myers
THE DAY OF THE RAKE COMES
Nathaniel Hall
Sure but that doesn't mean they'd be dominant this time. Everyone in the top-6 can beat each other in a single elimination game without it being a massive upset.
Juan Davis
What I mean is if NHL players were allowed, they'd still have many of the same players who won the last two gold medals. I wouldn't expect the results to be any different, especially with their defensemen.
Sure, it's hockey, anything can happen. A hot goalie can definitely steal a game. Canada's roster would be second to none, though. I'd rather be watching NHL players as well, but this is what we're stuck with.
Tyler Mitchell
some of the players from 2014 have retired, and new players have joined the NHL. USA would have had Auston Matthews this time, and Canada would have had Connor McDavid.
Nolan Gray
because everyone who likes hockey is a fucking brainlet
Noah Morales
>because everyone who likes NHL is a fucking brainlet
fixed
on a bigger rink with less made-for-tv theatrics, it's a decent sport. NHL is WWE on ice though
Aiden Edwards
Yeah we crashed out of it pretty hard. Just couldn't score, and we had a tough game in the quarters against the Russians. Anything can happen with those guys.
Still 2010/2014 and the 2016 WC made us look dominant.
Juan Sullivan
NHL is genuinely an embarrassing league
Completely mismanaged, blatantly rigged, disgusting
Asher Wright
>Why can't we have a proper international tournament
Because no-one plays this sport except USA, slavs, and countries that touch the arctic circle
Levi Wilson
>flag
r u an athlete
Dylan Rivera
How's South Korea? You living there or visiting?
Josiah Rivera
North America, Nordics, Russia and Central Europe are very lucrative markets though.
The real reason is NHL and their monopoly.
Brayden Wilson
Pros have no business being in the Olympics, let it be all amateurs
Alexander Williams
Last month of my contract. I had fun but can't wait to get out desu. There's a lot of korea-only bullshit that goes on here. Work culture is totally fucked.
No but I'm going to 3 hockey games today
Colton Davis
So beer league guys? NCAA players don't even want to go because they already missed classes for WJC. Everyone else is a professional.
John Russell
>Work culture is totally fucked.
That seems to be the case with many Asian countries.
Jason Ross
The olympics is supposed to be young and amateur athletes. Its not about being the best in the world, its to inspire a new generation of athletes.
Jaxon Brown
How's it rigged?
Oliver Flores
Yeah, but Hockey at the Winter Olympics and Basketball at the Summer ones are the closest things we had to World Cups for those sports.
And no, the FIBA and IIHF meme tournaments don't count.
Jack Scott
Kerry Fraser, longest serving NHL referee in history, wrote an article in which he stated he thinks the NHL takes a teams standings into account when handing out suspensions for players, thus influencing which teams are successful
and that's just the way that has been confirmed
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Andrew Jenkins
NHL will choke this sport to death. By now it's pretty much inevitable cause KHL failed in establishing itself as an alternative.
Leo Lee
The time of looking down at IIHF world championship is over. Now it's the best international tournament we have.