Olympics: Team China 2022 Olympics

[iginlafan77]

As far as i know, most of the roster has been playing together as a khl team, to me thats kind of cheating.

Cheating? What a ridiculous statement

 

[Namejs]

Well, the way I see it, all of these national teams are roughly at the level of KHL squads.

Russia has a KHL All-Star team, the rest of them are a little worse.

PRC/Kunlun has a record of 16 losses (4 OTL) and 1 win over the last couple of months in KHL. While that is a pretty awful record, they still racked up points in 5 out of 17 games. And for the most part they arguably faced better opposition than the US or Germany.

So I wouldn't be quite so sure about pimp slapping them, and there's a pretty decent chance they will make some team red-faced. Possibly the US if we look at their roster.

Now, that would be a headline. USA losing to China.

 

[DudeWhereIsMakar]

Hunter Shinkaruk on the team made me lol.

 

[iginlafan77]

Hunter Shinkaruk on the team made me lol.

Shinkaruk is with Riga this year, not Kunlun, and is not on the Chinese team

 

[SoundAndFury]

PRC/Kunlun has a record of 16 losses (4 OTL) and 1 win over the last couple of months in KHL. While that is a pretty awful record, they still racked up points in 5 out of 17 games.

As flimsy of an argument as that is, there is a difference between playing a borderline meaningless KHL regular-season game (which as long as you win in OT you don't lose anything at all) and every game being a must-win in the Olympics. They have a fighting chance but the possibility of them winning against anyone is still a very remote one.

 

[Hanji]

lmao

What a joke.

Too bad we couldn't send our best players to pimp slap this corrupt regime in the face.

Sorry, but I can't help smiling at this. It's so stereotypical Canadian.

"We'll pimp slap them in hockey! That'll show that currupt regime who's boss!"

 

[peconcan]

Cheating? What a ridiculous statement

Not cheating necessarily but i get where poster is coming from. it is kind of stupid how probably over half the team can’t even speak Chinese.

 

[iginlafan77]

Not cheating necessarily but i get where poster is coming from. it is kind of stupid how probably over half the team can’t even speak Chinese.

That has nothing to do with what they said

 

[leafs4life94]

Where's the roster? Tweets on the previous Page seem deleted

 

[iginlafan77]

Where's the roster? Tweets on the previous Page seem deleted

China at eliteprospects.com

 

[peconcan]

That has nothing to do with what they said

He said they are a KHL team not a Chinese national team. I was implying that there’s basically no actual Chinese people on the team

 

[iginlafan77]

He said they are a KHL team not a Chinese national team. I was implying that there’s basically no actual Chinese people on the team

They said it isn't fair that the team is playing together. No mention of player heritage

 

[iginlafan77]

He said they are a KHL team not a Chinese national team. I was implying that there’s basically no actual Chinese people on the team

Basically none?
The roster has 9 players born in China and a further 11 with Chinese heritage. I believe just 5 have no heritage.

 

[peconcan]

They said it isn't fair that the team is playing together. No mention of player heritage

Basically none?
The roster has 9 players born in China and a further 11 with Chinese heritage. I believe just 5 have no heritage.

Sorry I was wrong and misread then, no need to keep going. But If you look at the 9 Chinese born players they have a combined 2 points this year, doubt they will be seeing much ice time.

 

[pabst blue ribbon]

The KHL team partly exists because China wanted to participate in the Olympic tournament while allowing them to naturilize foreigners

 

[kaiser matias]

They said it isn't fair that the team is playing together. No mention of player heritage

It's very similar to the South Korean team, which used Anyang Halla in the Asia League for similar purposes: 12 of their Olympic players played there, including 4 of their 7 foreign-born players (and Mike Testwuide was with Anyang the year before the Olympics).

Nothing wrong with that, nor is it unfair (not that you're saying that of course).

 

[Exarz]

It's very similar to the South Korean team, which used Anyang Halla in the Asia League for similar purposes: 12 of their Olympic players played there, including 4 of their 7 foreign-born players (and Mike Testwuide was with Anyang the year before the Olympics).

Nothing wrong with that, nor is it unfair (not that you're saying that of course).

Similar with Latvia that has 1/3 of the roster playing for Dinamo Riga

 

[Namejs]

Similar with Latvia that has 1/3 of the roster playing for Dinamo Riga

It is in no way similar to Latvia, which would have about 5 players on the roster from that team if this was a best-on-best tournament.

There is no planning or intention for that KHL team to be in any way tied to the national team. 0.

It's merely a coincidence just like with Jokerit and Finland.

 

[Namejs]

As flimsy of an argument as that is, there is a difference between playing a borderline meaningless KHL regular-season game (which as long as you win in OT you don't lose anything at all) and every game being a must-win in the Olympics. They have a fighting chance but the possibility of them winning against anyone is still a very remote one.

We'll have to agree to disagree.

There's at least a 1 in 3 chance they will beat someone.

 

[NyQuil]

Any team with sufficient prep time is a threat, particularly with under-strength opposition.

I can see the stamps now.

 

[lawrence]

thought cliff pu was gonna be there, his parents are from China, but he was born in Canada, but he's not on that roster.

 

[vorky]

thought cliff pu was gonna be there, his parents are from China, but he was born in Canada, but he's not on that roster.

For some undisclosed reason he is the only one Kunlun player who did not make it to China´s extended roster. He did not travel to Beijing.

 

[Exarz]

It is in no way similar to Latvia, which would have about 5 players on the roster from that team if this was a best-on-best tournament.

There is no planning or intention for that KHL team to be in any way tied to the national team. 0.

It's merely a coincidence just like with Jokerit and Finland.

That's fair, I meant with the number of players but I completely missed the underlying statement with Anyang serving the national team.

 

[pabst blue ribbon]

 

[SoundAndFury]

We'll have to agree to disagree.

There's at least a 1 in 3 chance they will beat someone.

The team that has 14 losses in a row in the KHL has 1 in 3 chance to win a game in the Olympics? What am I missing?

It's not that they are unlucky or something, they have 7 pro-level forwards. It's not the team that played most of the KHL season. 1 in 3 chance to take someone to OT maybe.