and Scotty Bowman knows a ton more than both of us yet his list of top 100 Candian hockey players of all time is really weird and is extremely hard to justify on any level..
Chiarelli makes mistakes and asking for an older goalie and trading that 16th pick are both obvious ones.
I agree about Bowman's horrible list. These guys are not infallible. Bowman is quite far removed from his active coaching career, even further removed from seeing guys like Richard and Beliveau, and was proven to be a not so great GM. Chiarelli is a successful GM now, and is scouting current players as opposed to remembering players from more than 50 years ago. Good luck finding another GM in a tournament like this asking for a dispensation from the tournament organizers because he doesn't believe his own team is competitive enough. Chairelli, who has probably followed this team and its eligible players more than anyone else, already knows what most people can readily see - his gimmick team is not in a very good position to be competitive.
Hang on a second here, either Canda fields their best national team or they don't, or do you not proscribe that limited POV?
On one hand you have stated that guy won't be willing to play for a "non national team" and be somewhat handicapped or conflicted on their motivations but a tournament with not 2 but 3 "team Canada's" isn't a similar problem?
"Canada" was much more handicapped in bringing their best team to the U17 tournament yet players on all 3 teams gave their best and they all played competitively right?
Naysayers to the tournament have repeatedly stated how players won't be motivated unless they are playing for their national teams right or maybe your line of thought isn't consistent here.
Again - Canada (Red, White, Black) is a country. In that tournament there are three team Canadas. Each team represents their country, and is comprised of only players from that country. NA YoungGunz do not represent a country - they represent an age group of players from two different countries, both of which already have teams in the tournament. So, not only do the NA YoungGunz not represent a country, but ultimately their ultimate success (winning the tournament) would have to come at the expense of their country. That situation is obviously quite different from the U17 situation, which I assume most people can readily grasp.
No I get it, you oppose the format of the tournament and like a guy at a hip hop concert you are screaming why is there no rock and roll here.
The NHL is selling this as an
international tournament. They are not providing an
international tournament since all of the teams are not national teams. Thus, your analogy is embarrassingly inappropriate.
Go enjoy the WHC, wait teams can't bring their best players there either, or maybe wait for the Olympics, crashing the threads here is becoming tiresome.
I will wait for the Olympics, an actual best on best tournament. I don't understand your fixation with assuming that I'm a big fan of the WHC - I'm not.
NAU23 has a very good chance of providing stiff competition in the tournament and many hockey fans are eager to see what was once hypothetical happen if only out of curiosity.
You assume they have a very good chance of providing stiff competition - far more people assume otherwise. Including the GM of the YoungGunz, hilariously. I would like you to show me these many excited fans, since I don't see them here or any other place for that matter.
But really if you want "pure hockey" go watch the 7-7 league with no boards where the goalies must not leave their feet.
What? I don't understand what you are even talking about. You do realize that complaining about an idiotic format is not the same as complaining about the sport itself, right?
Things change and yes not always for the better, but if people don't want to watch the tournament that's their right, it's just embarrassing for them to tell the rest of us what to do here.
I agree that it is their right. No one here is telling you that you cannot watch the tournament - people are rightly demonstrating that each and every one of your arguments in support of this idiotic format is either poorly thought out or irrelevant. The same goes for the NHL, the entity that gave you most of those arguments in the first place. Plenty of people will enjoy this tournament just the way it is. The market for idiotic things tends to be pretty sizable.
