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After the doping history; should IIHF and NHL boycott the Olympics?

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Exarz said:
Exactly, and I think the World Championships could be as important to North Americans as to Europeans! Just look what you North Americans did with the importance of the World Junior's :handclap:
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For sure. In Canada it's all about best on best. You get Crosby and Ovechkin and the rest of the best in that tournament and you get fans to care.
 
Something to be added: The reason the World Championships are held every year is because of the lower tiers (D1A to D3). This is their way of financing their hockey, and a part of the IIHF money from the top division World Championship goes to financing and developing hockey world wide. If it was possible, I'd like to have the World Championships held every two or four years with qualifications (just like FIFA). I think it would create a more interesting hockey market to have a qualification with a home or away game every two or three months, and then a final big tournament for the top 8-12 nationalteams! :handclap:
 
The World Cup of Hockey, if held in August and September, does not lend itself to the best hockey. Players are in offseason mode, instead of in mid-season form like they are for the Olympics in February.
 
IOC better detail the process and timeline on this in complete detail and full transparency. If they followed their protocols, I guess we'll all have to live with it or demand better ****ing protocols.

If anything was fishy though, something's gotta happen. The timeline is most concerning, but until we know more can't say too much.

I hope Swedish media, Canadian media, NHL, and IIHF push IOC to the max to get a full accounting of this whole ordeal.
 
I'm all for a best-on-best World Championship outside of the Olympics that can alternate between NA and Europe. Olympic hockey didn't mean anything to NHLers before '98 and the Olympics are not the bastion of some ancient human spirit of goodness that the media portrays it as - it's all about money and politics.

Having said that, it's not as easy as saying "we want to make a World Championship for hockey that's as popular and reputable as the World Cup for soccer". It takes time to build that recognition. Right now the NHL gets more exposure from Olympic participation than they would from even the most ideal World Championship if it was invented now.

Also, IMO, such a tournament should be every 2 years at most.
 
Lol, if IOC standards were used in the NHl probably 80% of NHl players would have been busted a long time ago.
 
So Backstrom and Sweden agree to banned substances rules, then they break it and then boycott someone? I understand the whole story is unfortunate for you, but come on.
 
CpatainCanuck said:
The World Cup of Hockey, if held in August and September, does not lend itself to the best hockey. Players are in offseason mode, instead of in mid-season form like they are for the Olympics in February.
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Well maybe fewer players would be injured in August than in February and it would be a better competition.
 
icerocket said:
Of course the Olympics are about politics.Why do you think they had them in Russia?
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Perhaps because Russia (/USSR) is the most successful Olympic team in history and they never hosted the games before?

I don't really know what's the point in seeing conspiracies all around, also in this case not. The medical staff of Team Sweden knew the rules, they knew the tolerances and the consequences. They broke the rules and now it should be someone else's fault? Come on, if Crosby would have been caught and allowed to play in the same situation you'd have been complaining as much.

Whether this was a real case of doping or an unfortunate accident with allergy medicine must be established in a fair process, and that takes time.
 
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