Yeah, unless all players involved, even those playing for their actual NTs treat it as nothing more than pointless exposition. The players will have no greater incentive to succeed here than some perfectly arbitrary bragging rights. Then the level of play in any of the games won't be much higher than in your run-of-the-mill All-Star game. Maybe by some, but it will certainly be far from the intensity players show in the olympics. Or even WHCs.
I have a feeling we're running in circles here. I've now presented this point to you a multiple times and you constantly keep ignoring it. Maybe because it's a reason actually grounded in worry about the quality of the actual package, not simply emotional "they changed it, now it sucks" response. Parroting how the mickey mouse teams are "more marketable" and draw in better crowds does NOT make this concern go away.
