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ulvvf said:
yeah it can not get better than 4 straight losses in the quarterfinal.
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What are you talking about? They won the WC last year. Besides WC success is a stupid way to judge progress if the countries being evaluated don't send their top players.
 
Denmark just getting players into the NHL at all is "golden decade" for us.
Since Frans Nielsen started what everyone in Denmark thought was impossible we have now 11 players that have gotten NHL matches out of 14 drafted (15 if counting F. Andersen who was drafted twice). That also quite an impressive success percentage.
 
Justinov said:
Denmark just getting players into the NHL at all is "golden decade" for us.
Since Frans Nielsen started what everyone in Denmark thought was impossible we have now 11 players that have gotten NHL matches out of 14 drafted (15 if counting F. Andersen who was drafted twice). That also quite an impressive success percentage.
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I agree...Our development has been a lot quicker and with far fewer bumps than predicted....We were sure we would be a yoyo team for years and that didnt happen...And yes there was a big part of luck in play too in some years (Thx you japan), but its really amazing to have so many drafted players now....

We had our golden period in my eyes in a way.....But its so nice to see these generations get focus that previous generations didnt.


I will say in general that there will be a big fall again sometime....The generations and amount of hockey players simply make it impossible to sustain...But denmark has shown a good formula to get a lot from a very small talent pool..
 
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wings5 said:
What are you talking about? They won the WC last year. Besides WC success is a stupid way to judge progress if the countries being evaluated don't send their top players.
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I think WHC only tells your depth is good enough for gold even without top players.
 
If Canada wins in 2018, i don't think we will see another three peat at the Olympics for a very long time.

This is a Canadian golden era like no other.
 
GlobeHockey said:
If Canada wins in 2018, i don't think we will see another three peat at the Olympics for a very long time.

This is a Canadian golden era like no other.
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Canada's team is pretty much the same in 2018. I think things will change in 2022. 2005-2015 was the golden era for Canadian prospects.
 
Canada has won 7 of the 8 Olympic Gold medals awarded in mens and womens hockey during the 21st century. We're in a golden age.
 
aphyro said:
And no other countery execept Canada and USA give a damn about Women hockey:laugh:!
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The games between those two womens teams is some of the most competitive, exciting, and passionate hockey you can watch.

Sometimes I wish the Oilers would play with a fraction of the spirit that out national womens team play with.
 
If you are solely talking about the World Championships I would have to say Finland.

The US is going to improve a lot over the coming years but they never take the Worlds seriously.
 
Hard question to answer because of the many different definitions for the concept of golden years. Lithuania is in their golden years, they might even be promoted to D1A sometime soon.
 
Karjala takaisin said:
I think WHC only tells your depth is good enough for gold even without top players.
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It doesn't really measure anything given that there is a sizable imbalance between how many top players show up for each country.

GlobeHockey said:
If Canada wins in 2018, i don't think we will see another three peat at the Olympics for a very long time.

This is a Canadian golden era like no other.
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This hasn't been that unusually strong group for Canada. It more reflects that many countries had a bad period in the 2000s than anything else.
 
Rob said:
If you are solely talking about the World Championships I would have to say Finland.

The US is going to improve a lot over the coming years but they never take the Worlds seriously.
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Our worlds results are going to improve in the next decade simply because we are churning out more prospects every year. So even though we basically send a u25 B team. The level of those players is much higher than ten years ago.
 
snipes said:
Canada has won 7 of the 8 Olympic Gold medals awarded in mens and womens hockey during the 21st century. We're in a golden age.
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In relative terms, hockey is not really a popular sport outside of Canada. Only Finland appears to have somewhat equal devotion to the game. As for Women's hockey, most countries don't even have a minimal women's program.
 
Yakushev72 said:
In relative terms, hockey is not really a popular sport outside of Canada. Only Finland appears to have somewhat equal devotion to the game. As for Women's hockey, most countries don't even have a minimal women's program.
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Especially in Russia. Don't think people even know there is a Worlds going on right now.

Might explain why Russia's development program is so lacklustre.

The sport has died.

I hear half the khl teams might relocate to China since the popularity of the sport has diminished. Apparently Putin might create a new law establishing curling as the national winter game.

Do you think in 10 years Russia might win Gold in Curling at least since they have no hope with the unpopularity of Hockey.

Is that true?

:sarcasm:
 
habsrule4eva3089 said:
Especially in Russia. Don't think people even know there is a Worlds going on right now.

Might explain why Russia's development program is so lacklustre.

The sport has died.

I hear half the khl teams might relocate to China since the popularity of the sport has diminished. Apparently Putin might create a new law establishing curling as the national winter game.

Do you think in 10 years Russia might win Gold in Curling at least since they have no hope with the unpopularity of Hockey.

Is that true?

:sarcasm:
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I disagree about the Curling. Less interest there than in hockey.
 
JackSlater said:
It doesn't really measure anything given that there is a sizable imbalance between how many top players show up for each country.



This hasn't been that unusually strong group for Canada. It more reflects that many countries had a bad period in the 2000s than anything else.
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It is mainly of interest in European countries where hockey is played. North Americans are more interested in the Stanley Cup. However, there must still be a great deal of interest in the WC in Canada, since your sports network TSN broadcasts a lot of games from the site of the tournament, even games that don't involve Canada. To spend that much money, they must have concluded that there are millions of Canadians who will watch.
 
Yakushev72 said:
In relative terms, hockey is not really a popular sport outside of Canada. Only Finland appears to have somewhat equal devotion to the game. As for Women's hockey, most countries don't even have a minimal women's program.
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There's a difference between being a popular sport and having the level of devotion to it that Canada has.

Hockey is popular in multiple countries and Russia is one of them.
 
Yakushev72 said:
It is mainly of interest in European countries where hockey is played. North Americans are more interested in the Stanley Cup. However, there must still be a great deal of interest in the WC in Canada, since your sports network TSN broadcasts a lot of games from the site of the tournament, even games that don't involve Canada. To spend that much money, they must have concluded that there are millions of Canadians who will watch.
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It's not big in Canada yet relative to the NHL or other international tournaments. TSN invested in this tournament heavily when Sportsnet secured the Canadian rights to the NHL playoffs. It even shows many games from the U18 tournament (even games without Canada) and that tournament is even less popular. Though, TSN did make extremely popular in Canada, so I wouldn't be surprised if in a few years the profile of the World Championship increases in Canada.
 
JackSlater said:
It's not big in Canada yet relative to the NHL or other international tournaments. TSN invested in this tournament heavily when Sportsnet secured the Canadian rights to the NHL playoffs. It even shows many games from the U18 tournament (even games without Canada) and that tournament is even less popular. Though, TSN did make extremely popular in Canada, so I wouldn't be surprised if in a few years the profile of the World Championship increases in Canada.
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There was a trade off with the IIHF, to become the Host Broadcaster of the Junior tournament no matter where it is played, TSN had to give a bigger commitment to the Senior Men's tournament, more so than what they were already doing.

The Senior Men's tournament became TSN's loss leader in a sense...they make it up on the junior tournament.
 
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