World Cup: How can the 2016 World Cup become greater?
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I know. The NHL could have a 'glowing puck' for television broadcasts. They could visually make the puck resemble a comet with a red streaking tail behind it when shot at high speed.
I doubt the NHL would try something that cool though.
I doubt the NHL would try something that cool though.
JackSlater
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In order to test out the proposed changes coming to the NHL, and to be fresh, new, and exciting for all of the fans, the NHL should play the whole tournament three on three.
Take a cue from EA Sports and allow the Montreal Canadiens Legends to participate. Lafleur! Dryden! Moore! Robinson! Savard! The Pocket Rocket! Wow!
Take a cue from EA Sports and allow the Montreal Canadiens Legends to participate. Lafleur! Dryden! Moore! Robinson! Savard! The Pocket Rocket! Wow!
-O33 team instead of Sweden or Russia or... Actually don't care what country they kick out as long as they dump one to make room for the O33 team.
-Polar Bears should be released onto the ice during OT.
-For shootouts pucks should be replaced with live hand grenades.
-ACC blown-up immediately after the tournaments conclusion. No trophy presentation or anything like that, just the final whistle/horn and then a split second later...
-Polar Bears should be released onto the ice during OT.
-For shootouts pucks should be replaced with live hand grenades.
-ACC blown-up immediately after the tournaments conclusion. No trophy presentation or anything like that, just the final whistle/horn and then a split second later...
habsrule4eva3089
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Greater?
First of all it's not a great tournament, it's a silly exhibition no one cares about, this as a proud Canadian.
What makes sport special is not the games itself, it's the stage,
All the world's a stage, and they're just merely actors. The Olympics is the pinnacle of our game, because you know every soul in this country to every soul in Slovakia to Russia, to Sweden, to Finland will wake up and gather with family , friends, strangers and urge their nation to victory. It doesn't matter if you don't enjoy Hockey or not, you urging your country men on for that pursuit of the ultimate victory every 4 years. An Olympic medal, a medal which has been contested since the early 1900's , that has built a tradition across every nation in this World.
What are they playing for? Nothing, there is no prize
Who are they playing for? Certainly they don't represent me and millions of Canadians in this money making tournament.
Does anyone care? No, no one in the Hockey World gives a s*it of this tournament.
What makes International sport what it is, is that it unites people, from all backgrounds to find a common purpose to unite over, and this is meaningless, if you want to see emotion, and what sport actually signifies, watch one month earlier in Rio, that's representing your nation. Not some ugly tournament from a corrupt league that cares not about Hockey, but money.
Fans make Hockey what it is, in a tournament where only 3 million might watch, no , don't even think of this as a great tournament.
Spell...
Meaningless.
First of all it's not a great tournament, it's a silly exhibition no one cares about, this as a proud Canadian.
What makes sport special is not the games itself, it's the stage,
All the world's a stage, and they're just merely actors. The Olympics is the pinnacle of our game, because you know every soul in this country to every soul in Slovakia to Russia, to Sweden, to Finland will wake up and gather with family , friends, strangers and urge their nation to victory. It doesn't matter if you don't enjoy Hockey or not, you urging your country men on for that pursuit of the ultimate victory every 4 years. An Olympic medal, a medal which has been contested since the early 1900's , that has built a tradition across every nation in this World.
What are they playing for? Nothing, there is no prize
Who are they playing for? Certainly they don't represent me and millions of Canadians in this money making tournament.
Does anyone care? No, no one in the Hockey World gives a s*it of this tournament.
What makes International sport what it is, is that it unites people, from all backgrounds to find a common purpose to unite over, and this is meaningless, if you want to see emotion, and what sport actually signifies, watch one month earlier in Rio, that's representing your nation. Not some ugly tournament from a corrupt league that cares not about Hockey, but money.
Fans make Hockey what it is, in a tournament where only 3 million might watch, no , don't even think of this as a great tournament.
Spell...
Meaningless.
JETZZZ
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Actually, they are playing for the World Cup of Hockey...which I think is going to be a plastic/tinfoil...thingy if the last 2 world cups are anything to base this off of. Perhaps instead of presenting a strange looking trophy, each player should be given a honda accord like the last pick in the all star game...remember how much ovetchkin wanted to be picked last to win that car? Well now he can and so can the rest of his russian national team...well some of them...probably not the ones in the KHL but ya know...like...maybe some of them...if their not busy
JETZZZ
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think of the sponsorship revenue that can be made if they called it the "HONDA ACCORD CUP OF HOCKEY" or "ACCORD CUP" or even "THE WORLD HONDA ACCORD TOURNAMENT BY PEPSI"
1) Name could be just "Honda Olympics"
2) To gain more visibility in low market NA areas, Finland would be kicked out and replaced with team having American players originating from low market areas, like Alabama. If there are no enough players from those states, then some European NHL players (like Slovakians) would be converted to such and they'd be given proper new names too
3) Ice would be made of Pepsi. Goalies wouldn't be allowed to have bottles, they should just lick the ice, which would have Pepsi logo on it in front of goal
4) Every NHL team should have certain amount of players in World Cup representing their franchises. If it doesn't happen naturally, then there would be offical draft for those players during entry draft weekend. National team coaches would be forced to participate in it. Players would be obligated to participate the draft and look happy when they're drafted. The team with strongest roster would select first, to make teams more even. Strongest roster would be defined by equation having points, TOI, +/-, games played etc of each player.
5) There would be salary cap. "Board of Wise Men of NHL" knows that nobody wants to watch games if rosters are not even. Those players, who are too expensive for any national team to use, would form a new mini team ("The Unaffordables") replacing Czechs. That mini team would have just about one line, but it would exhilarating to see how it fares with the Alabama guys.
6) National anthems are replaced with songs from sponsoring artists
7) NHL team can become a sponsor of a World Cup team. Team name would then be like "Sweden of Detroit Red Wings" (or just "Swede Wings")
8) BWMN would have also right to assign players to team of a neighbouring country if it could raise revenues of NHL. Mikko Koivu could be assigned to play for Team Russia, for example.
2) To gain more visibility in low market NA areas, Finland would be kicked out and replaced with team having American players originating from low market areas, like Alabama. If there are no enough players from those states, then some European NHL players (like Slovakians) would be converted to such and they'd be given proper new names too
3) Ice would be made of Pepsi. Goalies wouldn't be allowed to have bottles, they should just lick the ice, which would have Pepsi logo on it in front of goal
4) Every NHL team should have certain amount of players in World Cup representing their franchises. If it doesn't happen naturally, then there would be offical draft for those players during entry draft weekend. National team coaches would be forced to participate in it. Players would be obligated to participate the draft and look happy when they're drafted. The team with strongest roster would select first, to make teams more even. Strongest roster would be defined by equation having points, TOI, +/-, games played etc of each player.
5) There would be salary cap. "Board of Wise Men of NHL" knows that nobody wants to watch games if rosters are not even. Those players, who are too expensive for any national team to use, would form a new mini team ("The Unaffordables") replacing Czechs. That mini team would have just about one line, but it would exhilarating to see how it fares with the Alabama guys.
6) National anthems are replaced with songs from sponsoring artists
7) NHL team can become a sponsor of a World Cup team. Team name would then be like "Sweden of Detroit Red Wings" (or just "Swede Wings")
8) BWMN would have also right to assign players to team of a neighbouring country if it could raise revenues of NHL. Mikko Koivu could be assigned to play for Team Russia, for example.
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1Gold Standard
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1) Make the players take various intoxicants before the game. It would be interesting, for example, to see one team high on weed and the other team drunk. How badly would the playmaking and goaltending suffer? What would the scores be like? Fans want to know, Mr. Bettman!
2) Have the score depend on the quality of goals scored. A screened shot from the blueline would be worth 1; a pass play would be 3; an amazing deek 5, etc.
3) Penalties would subtract goals from the team's total. So in conjunction with my brilliant #2 idea, you could have a team score a few nice goals with their opponents getting into all sorts of penalty trouble and the score could end up being 13 to -4. No sport has ever thought to do that! C'mon Gary, are you reading this?
4) Have another mixed-up team, this time of players who are single. The NHL will want to expand the female fan base so this will give otherwise indifferent ladies a dream to root for.
One of the promotions could be for female fans at the game to buy raffle tickets with the winner getting to spend a night with the player of their choice! Sure, the NHL would then be wh0ring out its own players, but they're sort of doing that anyway with this stupid event so they might as well go all the way. And just think of the extra revenue for the NHL/NHLPA!
5) Introduce "Team Been-to-Asia". In order to expand the NHLs footprint in the far east, this team will be made up of players who have been to the region for whatever reason. Lines will be formed based on who has been where: the been-to-Japan line, the been-to-China line etc. Their jerseys will feature the latest anime, allowing the NHL to tap into the pockets of billions of potential fans.
So now we're down to...
Canada
USA
Sweden
Russia
the U-23 kiddies
Euro Leftovers
Team been-to-Asia (sorry Czechs)
Team Single (sorry Finns)
Should be a great tournament!
2) Have the score depend on the quality of goals scored. A screened shot from the blueline would be worth 1; a pass play would be 3; an amazing deek 5, etc.
3) Penalties would subtract goals from the team's total. So in conjunction with my brilliant #2 idea, you could have a team score a few nice goals with their opponents getting into all sorts of penalty trouble and the score could end up being 13 to -4. No sport has ever thought to do that! C'mon Gary, are you reading this?
4) Have another mixed-up team, this time of players who are single. The NHL will want to expand the female fan base so this will give otherwise indifferent ladies a dream to root for.
One of the promotions could be for female fans at the game to buy raffle tickets with the winner getting to spend a night with the player of their choice! Sure, the NHL would then be wh0ring out its own players, but they're sort of doing that anyway with this stupid event so they might as well go all the way. And just think of the extra revenue for the NHL/NHLPA!
5) Introduce "Team Been-to-Asia". In order to expand the NHLs footprint in the far east, this team will be made up of players who have been to the region for whatever reason. Lines will be formed based on who has been where: the been-to-Japan line, the been-to-China line etc. Their jerseys will feature the latest anime, allowing the NHL to tap into the pockets of billions of potential fans.
So now we're down to...
Canada
USA
Sweden
Russia
the U-23 kiddies
Euro Leftovers
Team been-to-Asia (sorry Czechs)
Team Single (sorry Finns)
Should be a great tournament!
sobrien
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Make it an actual World Cup like the soccer tournament. They now have ESPN airing it, use their global reach to your advantage.
I feel the way the WC is currently set up is extremely elitist, let alone incredibly stupid. If you want to treat Canada, US, Sweden, Russia, Finland, Czech as shoe-ins, then do that. Eliminate the Euro team and the U23 NA team and make Slovakia and an 8th team another "shoe-in" (Norway, Denmark, Germany, Ukraine, etc.)
According to the IIHF survey of players, there are 69 different countries with registered hockey players, 64 of which have enough "senior" players (20yo and older) to ice a team with several to spare for injuries. Of the 5 that do not, all but one country (Chile) have enough registered players for a full team if U20 players are included. North Korea is not included in the survey, yet I know they have a competitive team, so that's 70 countries
The other nations then play to get into the World Cup, just like the FIFA WC qualifiers. You have your top 8 teams set, separate them into the heads of the 8 different groups.
I'd love to see other non-traditional hockey countries get a shot at playing in this. Ireland, Great Britain, Japan, Spain, Mexico, UAB, Israel, etc. It'll be the best way to grow the game, and who knows what kind of talent can be uncovered. Yes they'll likely get crushed for years, but it'll spur interest in the game in those respective countries, and there will be a handful of kids who want to grow up to play hockey, and the talent pools will grow.
Make it an actual World Cup like the soccer tournament. They now have ESPN airing it, use their global reach to your advantage.
I feel the way the WC is currently set up is extremely elitist, let alone incredibly stupid. If you want to treat Canada, US, Sweden, Russia, Finland, Czech as shoe-ins, then do that. Eliminate the Euro team and the U23 NA team and make Slovakia and an 8th team another "shoe-in" (Norway, Denmark, Germany, Ukraine, etc.)
According to the IIHF survey of players, there are 69 different countries with registered hockey players, 64 of which have enough "senior" players (20yo and older) to ice a team with several to spare for injuries. Of the 5 that do not, all but one country (Chile) have enough registered players for a full team if U20 players are included. North Korea is not included in the survey, yet I know they have a competitive team, so that's 70 countries
The other nations then play to get into the World Cup, just like the FIFA WC qualifiers. You have your top 8 teams set, separate them into the heads of the 8 different groups.
I'd love to see other non-traditional hockey countries get a shot at playing in this. Ireland, Great Britain, Japan, Spain, Mexico, UAB, Israel, etc. It'll be the best way to grow the game, and who knows what kind of talent can be uncovered. Yes they'll likely get crushed for years, but it'll spur interest in the game in those respective countries, and there will be a handful of kids who want to grow up to play hockey, and the talent pools will grow.
JETZZZ
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Hey now. Just because its a world cup doesn't mean they want to bring in all these strange and unfamiliar import players from god knows what other leagues. If anything, this tournament should basically be limited to teams made from north american players, possibly divided up by a quick draft or have names pulled from a hat. Call it the Mountain Dew World Cup Draft or something.
Rabid Ranger
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The World Cup would have been fine (although relatively anonymous as most international hockey events are) without them getting cute with the teams involved. Just go with the top 10-12 IIHF ranked teams and let the chips fall where they may.
Most professional soccer team owners and coaches hate the word cup and would rather not have to make players available for the rigors of qualifying as well as the tournament itself.
Let the North America U23 match against a european dito. Switzerland and Slovakia broadens the hockey world.
Let the Winner in the U23 game face an ALL-retired team?
Let the Winner in the U23 game face an ALL-retired team?
JETZZZ
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Why stop there?
Team dark skins (Latino origins can count)
Team 35+ contracts
Team greatest dads (dads only!)
Team 6-figure-salary (no one over 1mil in cap hit - ice the best value players in the NHL)
Team dark skins (Latino origins can count)
Team 35+ contracts
Team greatest dads (dads only!)
Team 6-figure-salary (no one over 1mil in cap hit - ice the best value players in the NHL)
Mickey Marner
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Ok, but they must be the coca cola bears and the players must ride them.
JETZZZ
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This could help out some defensemen like Dion Phaneuf who love to sit at the blue line and just hammer slap shots into the stands. Now with them basically firing up a ramp, it will allow each and every shot to soar into the upper bowl, allowing even those in the nosebleeds seats to get a souvenir...or a literal nosebleed if they aren't paying attention (remember this is the ACC so only the suits can afford to get in and odds are they will be busy looking at their phones to notice a puck or the actual game).
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