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Mr Kot said:
IIRC it was only NHL players, so they didn't have enough players.
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Czechia has enough players, although not enough defenseman.

Hertl - Necas - Pasta
Palat - Zacha - Faksa
Lauko - Chytil - Vrana
Kampf - Blumel - Nosek

Hronek - Gudas
Rutta - Jiricek
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Dostal
Vejmelka

They're likely pretty good with an ahl 3rd pair, tbh. The forward group isn't awful.
 
iCanada said:
Czechia has enough players, although not enough defenseman.

Hertl - Necas - Pasta
Palat - Zacha - Faksa
Lauko - Chytil - Vrana
Kampf - Blumel - Nosek

Hronek - Gudas
Rutta - Jiricek
?????

Dostal
Vejmelka

They're likely pretty good with an ahl 3rd pair, tbh. The forward group isn't awful.
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that is not a competitive roster though against the other 4 though.
 
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Let Hughes or whoever play, I don't care. If we win I don't want to hear a cavalcade of excuses. With Hellebuyck in net they still have a large advantage anyway.
 
dem said:
I gotta say..

I think it’s absolutely absurd Evan Bouchard was seemingly not even considered for this team.

He would look very good out there.
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I think it’s honestly hard to say with Bouchard. Hes a hard player to understand and analyze.

I feel like hes been left off because he can’t be trusted. And when you watch him in the regular season he makes so many unforced errors and plays which make little sense that it’s hard to really argue.

But then he goes and does so many other things well. Theres the good and the bad which is pretty typical of offensive players.

What makes him hard to figure out is that hes the type of player that you would expect for him to fall apart as the games get tough. But in reality hes the opposite. He has great playoff numbers. His game seems to get better. But even saying that am I confident that hes going to be great again these playoffs? Hopefully.

So I think based on his playoff numbers, he should really exceed in this tournament but other GM don’t really trust him because of his regular season gaffes and well because this Canadian front office are incompetent and biased.

The problem though is the players they chose instead are kinda meh. A lot of the roster decisions are just confusing.
 
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I gotta say, I never really cared about international tournaments and wondered why we go so crazy for them. I derided the Four Nations tournament as a silly waste of time but with the recent tensions between us and them, I finally “get” it.

I was super-hyped for the last game and this final game is massive. I’ve never wanted my “team” to beat another so bad.

I’m not lost on the irony that my favourite musical artist is American but I can’t give up Prince lol. I haven’t been blown away from someone’s music like this since the first time I listened to The Beatles White Album.
 
Mr Kot said:
IIRC it was only NHL players, so they didn't have enough players.
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Jimmi McJenkins said:
I think 5 countries (teams) would have thrown off the balance. Though a team Europe(not Russia) would have been interesting, because there's some big stars not playing in this.
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Oilslick941611 said:
Its an NHL event, not an IIHF. NHl players must play and no IIHF players can, because its not IIHF sanctioned and those teams you mentioned dont have enough players to make teams out of NHL players. Finland barely had enough to ice a full roster.

Thats all there is to the tournament, its an NHL ALL STAR game replacement not a World Championship or Olympic replacement.


100%

If you can't handle the physical play ( getting hurt being physical shows that you can't) kind of speaks for itself doesn't it?
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Thanks folks, and this makes sense. I knew it was an NHL only deal, I just didn’t realise the number of players in the league for each country weren’t as high as they once were (or at least so it seems).
 
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Guerin's comments there are of course gross but I'm not sure why anyone is surprised a bunch of wealthy American pro athletes are Trump supporters.

They think it's all some big joke.
 
Messrules11 said:
I thought Gaudreau was their inspiration, now Geurin is beaking off about Trump and his 51st state bullshit. I hope Trump is there when we beat the shit out of them Thursday.
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It was fun to watch Putin hand gold medals to Canada, his biggest hockey rival, in 2016.

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oXo Cube said:
Guerin's comments there are of course gross but I'm not sure why anyone is surprised a bunch of wealthy American pro athletes are Trump supporters.

They think it's all some big joke.
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Above all else it burns their ass that their anthem was booed. That is more than enough motivation for anyone that takes pride in their country. Maybe that's his way of firing back?
 
bellagiobob said:


Thursday’s game gets more and more interesting by the hour.
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I'll just say this here, even if it get's me in trouble. Seems appropo now.

I had said this before, but it's really fascinating how much the sentiment towards solitude went out the window after Trump won. All I saw from people on X, Facebook, etc, was that the U.S should stop getting involved with foreign governments and that the focus should be improving things at home first, which I agree with as well. However, once Greenland, Gaza, and Canada were said to be on the table, the same people are suddenly OK with upending foreign government's sovereignty for the possibility of gain; basically, the same military complex that was criticized during the Bush, Obama, and Biden presidencies is suddenly ok again.

I know the response to Trump's rhetoric is to say he is joking and that's it's a negotiating tactic. However, being a joke or not, it's a costly one to make, as it seemed to have sewered national trust in each country. Both countries' citizens are now boycotting each other's products and tariffs will have noticeable consequences sooner rather than later if they continue.

I do try and be as fair as I can, as I do like SOME of the things their admin is doing. Ultimately, however, where it hurts most will be people's wallets and that's not going to be something that everyone will overlook for the sake of the possibility, not the certainty, the POSSIBILITY that they will overtake Canada. I am not even sure how many people would even be ready for the cost of doing such a monumental takeover of an entire country like Canada, would Americans be ok with possibly being in massive debt, beyond even what they have now, in order to do such a thing? Already many places in America are very expensive and is possibly the reason why Trump was elected in the first place.

In any case, I love America and love Canada. This is my home however and I would rather us fix this place ourselves, not consolidate power into more singular world entities. The gravy train will end in America at some point and I don't want to be part of that once it happens.
 
Bryanbryoil said:
Above all else it burns their ass that their anthem was booed. That is more than enough motivation for anyone that takes pride in their country. Maybe that's his way of firing back?
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Unfortunately his comments indicate he’s clueless about why the anthem was booed. Guarantee his reaction would be different if another world leader repeatedly said they wanted to annex the US.
 
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