Next World Cup
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You might want to google "derby". If you're bored, you can stroll Vienna streets and seek for some support of a german speaking team ... with germans. Good Luck
Eye of Ra
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well in that case Denmark and Norway should join Sweden. Similar culture and all speak the same language (almost).
Zuccarello and Ehlers, rest would be swedes.
Zuccarello and Ehlers, rest would be swedes.
Finland doesn’t speak the same language but culturally they are very similar. Sweden and Norway are in many ways more similar to Finland than to Denmark.
US+Canada.
Czechia+Slovakia.
Voilà four teams.
No but honestly lets not.
If you don’t get europe you might get smashed and come up with this. Honestly this is probably what the genius NHL execs in charge of the gimmick teams for the 2016 world cup did.
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JackSlater
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I have a crazy idea myself. A world cup with just national teams and no age restrictions.
Bettman takes one look at this and goes: this is a crazy concept it will never work!
Rob
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Hopefully, never ever.
The real "World Cup" is happening right now, these days. It's called the World Championships, you know.
And once the NHL stops sabotaging it, and joins every single other top-level hockey league from around the world to accommodate this annual tournament with an esteemed tradition of decades, we will have a proper best-on-best event every single year.
Preferably around mid-February, as befits a winter sport. Of course, it would be skipped every fourth year, in favor of the Olympics.
Very simple, isn't it? No need for silly travesties called "World Cup".
Naturally, a proper World Championships tournament would take place in North America just as frequently as it would in Europe. This is already a given in the junior tier, so the "adult" tier simply needs to follow suit.
Rob
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Hopefully, never ever.
The real "World Cup" is happening right now, these days. It's called the World Championships, you know.
And once the NHL stops sabotaging it, and joins every single other top-level hockey league from around the world to accommodate this annual tournament with an esteemed tradition of decades, we will have a proper best-on-best event every single year.
Preferably around mid-February, as befits a winter sport. Of course, it would be skipped every fourth year, in favor of the Olympics.
Very simple, isn't it? No need for silly travesties called "World Cup".
Naturally, a proper World Championships tournament would take place in North America just as frequently as it would in Europe. This is already a given in the junior tier, so the "adult" tier simply needs to follow suit.
If it was held in September it wouldn't be an issue.
Problem is, the NHL would get pissy because 1. They’re not running it themselves and does therefore not stand to make any real money off of it 2. To them international tournaments are a liability because their multi-million dollar athletes could get injured.
So I think holding it once a year would be a stretch in this case. Every fourth year would be ridiculous though. So maybe every other year?
Coffee
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How is this still open?
There will be no tournament until further notice.
end of story
RebuildinVan
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It would – for us fans. Hockey is a winter sport. Just like you don't typically play beach volleyball in February (unless you're in Australia or warmer climates), you don't play hockey in September or in the summer. (Well, at least you shouldn't.)
Cancel the embarrassing "all-star weekend/break" once and for all. A true all-star event would be the annual World Championships/Olympics in mid-February, in a genuine best-on-best format.
Interrupt the regular season of all top-level hockey leagues around the world, including the NHL, for 2 weeks every February, to facilitate the annual best-on-best tournament.
Issue solved.
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appleinyoureye
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I am calling the nice people in the white coats to give you your meds - that’s complete insanity!!
Interrupting the regular season is far too much of a disruption every single year. But every four years (like the football World Cup of the Olympics) should work just fine. And did work for a while. But every year? No.
There definetly should not be those combination teams. They battle against meaning of national teams. They were pretty great the last time but still they tarnish the image. Its odd to win some team Europe in final if you are in Canada jersey.
There should be 8 best national teams like in world cup 2004. Canada, Finland, (Russia if the they have stopped the war and let back in), Sweden, Czech, Usa, Switzerland, Germany and Slovakia.
There should be 8 best national teams like in world cup 2004. Canada, Finland, (Russia if the they have stopped the war and let back in), Sweden, Czech, Usa, Switzerland, Germany and Slovakia.
Shawn Heins 44
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My two cents as a Swiss. We have a good enough roster to hang with everyone on such a tournament in one game, no need to collaborate with other countries. The best 8/10/12 - whatever the format is - countries should go - full stop.
And to your roster: Berni did not even make the Swiss team this year, with Josi and Bichsel out, he would currently not be on such a roster.
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You are missing the issue people had with Team Europe. You can do this at an All-Star competition but these shenanigans don't belong in the World Cup.
Gold Standard
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Such a brilliant concept in its simplicity.
If a World Cup doesn't happen in 2025 I'm more confident that a USA-Canada Summit Series will happen. Especially if the Americans can pull off a Gold Medal performance at the WHC this year and Canada has a 1/4 final epic fail like the one Benn-Getzlaf-Perry managed to pull off in 2012. I can see the NY suits being a little braver if that happens.
Sweden - Finland was basically the same country for some 600yrs and the culture is the same. Hey also language - I`m a swedish speaking Finn myself. Here is our lineup:
Landeskog - Barkov - Rantanen
Hintz - Pettersson - Nylander
Laine - Aho - Forsberg
Zibanejad - Lindholm - Burakovsky
Heiskanen - Dahlin
Karlsson - Hedman
Lindholm - Ekholm/Andersson
Saros
Ullmark
Landeskog - Barkov - Rantanen
Hintz - Pettersson - Nylander
Laine - Aho - Forsberg
Zibanejad - Lindholm - Burakovsky
Heiskanen - Dahlin
Karlsson - Hedman
Lindholm - Ekholm/Andersson
Saros
Ullmark
Since in North America people speak English, Canada and the US should also have one team.
We could do just four teams:
North America (us, canada)
Scandinavia (fins, sweds, norway and dnmk)
Eastern Europe (slovaks, czech n russia)
Western Europe (austrians, swiss, germans)
We could do just four teams:
North America (us, canada)
Scandinavia (fins, sweds, norway and dnmk)
Eastern Europe (slovaks, czech n russia)
Western Europe (austrians, swiss, germans)
Let's have a lottery where we pick 12 countries out the 195 we have. Then we have another lottery where we divide the players that the 12 coaches choose among them.
So we can have a real world cup where every country on the planet has a fair chance to win.
So we can have a real world cup where every country on the planet has a fair chance to win.
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