Future of Norwegian hockey
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Smirnov2Chistov
Fire Greg Cronin!
this is OT, but I remember one WJC year where they had like a 6'9 monster of a defenseman.. can't remember his name for the life of me.
WarriorofTime
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Wow, that's a huge blow for International Ice Hockey. They are IIHF Number 12 right now in the men's side (and 13 in the Women's side) and pretty generally in that "group of teams playing in the last round of Olympic qualifying" and they did in fact participate in the Olympics in 2010, 2014 and 2018.
For a sport that is so razor thin in terms of the number of countries that can seriously participate, losing any bit of "depth" is bad. Norway has produced 14 NHL Draft Picks since 1999, which is not a lot but does show that there has been a "path" to the NHL from there, which is not the case in most parts of the world. This most recent season, 35 year old Mats Zuccarrello was the only Norweigan to play NHL games but there were 2 young guys that played in the AHL, 7 players that appeared in at least one game in the SHL, 4 that played games in Liiga.
The demise of the hockey program there is definitely no good.
For a sport that is so razor thin in terms of the number of countries that can seriously participate, losing any bit of "depth" is bad. Norway has produced 14 NHL Draft Picks since 1999, which is not a lot but does show that there has been a "path" to the NHL from there, which is not the case in most parts of the world. This most recent season, 35 year old Mats Zuccarrello was the only Norweigan to play NHL games but there were 2 young guys that played in the AHL, 7 players that appeared in at least one game in the SHL, 4 that played games in Liiga.
The demise of the hockey program there is definitely no good.
Ub the Bub
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Well, that tweet is a bit misleading. They're not folding the whole organization (yet), they're just pausing all international activities for the rest of the calendar year, apart from the U20. Anything happening in 2024, for example U18 and World Championship, is still undetermined.
jcbio11
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Eye of Ra
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i thought the op would write something that Norway have surpassed Sweden
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ItWasJustified
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They're putting all their money and resources into buying as many asthma inhalers as humanly possible for their cross-country skiers.
WarriorofTime
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That too. Without oil they would only be a rich country. With oil they are a super-rich country.
However, if Finnish politicians were given the amount of money that Norway has in its oil-fund that money would be squandered in a very short time.
Fjorden
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Just needs some time to clean up inside the organisation and fire the responsible people.
General secretary have already been fired. Would be disturbing for the teams with hockey activity when they need to reconstruct the organisation.
New and stronger organisation ready from january 2024, and back to normal .
