You keep regurgitating the same thing over and over and over again. To you, these games are meaningless we get it. Somehow they are more meaningless than any other hockey game that has some imbued meaning to you. So I'm assuming you didn't watch, but if you did, you'd seee the faces of the players during the game, after they scored, after Sweden tied it up, after the winning goal was scored. You would see that the games are NOT meaningless to the ones playing in them sooooo....wtf are you even going on about?
If the games matter to the players, and they are entertaining, and the fans are enjoying seeing competitive hockey played at a higher level than regular season nhl hockey, why are you so hung up on gatekeeping the NHL? Are you a fan of the game or just the league? It sounds like the latter.
You've probably made at least 30 posts across the Four Nations tournament all saying the exact same thing. Maybe move on to the NHL forum where you clearly belong.