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IIHF needs to make changes to these tournaments. Players must have strong financial motive to play and win. Tournaments are making lot of money, prices are sky high and most games will be sold out. I can't understand why players don't get good chunk of that revenue. This needs to change.

Cheapest ticket for Finland - Great Britain game is 175€ (185$). Non Finland games are also quite expensive (starting from 35€+).
 
Omark said:
IIHF needs to make changes to these tournaments. Players must have strong financial motive to play and win. Tournaments are making lot of money, prices are sky high and most games will be sold out. I can't understand why players don't get good chunk of that revenue. This needs to change.

Cheapest ticket for Finland - Great Britain game is 175€ (185$). Non Finland games are also quite expensive (starting from 35€+).
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If you need money to play for your country you shouldn't play for your country.
 
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jonas2244 said:
If you need money to play for your country you shouldn't play for your country.
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These are professionals. It's their job to play hockey. No one does their job for free. If nothing changes, there won't be tournaments with all the best players available. We need change.

I can't figure out one single player who has came to WHC every time they had possibility. Not one.
 
Farabee is a confirmed decline from the Flyers. Hayes was hurt most of the year so I doubt he’s in. JvR probably won’t go. Atkinson & York ended up getting hurt & shut down at the end of the season. So they might be out too.

That probably leaves Noah Cates, Bobby Brink, & Ronnie Attard as realistic potential candidates from the Flyers.

The Flyers were so awful this year to the point it seems like most players futures there are up in the air at this point. So I don’t know if that factors in some unwillingness too on top of normal reasons. Konecny & Lindblom both declined for their respective countries too.
 
Omark said:
These are professionals. It's their job to play hockey. No one does their job for free. If nothing changes, there won't be tournaments with all the best players available. We need change.

I can't figure out one single player who has came to WHC every time they had possibility. Not one.
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You find plenty of those players, maybe not in the US but in other countries.
 
Omark said:
IIHF needs to make changes to these tournaments. Players must have strong financial motive to play and win. Tournaments are making lot of money, prices are sky high and most games will be sold out. I can't understand why players don't get good chunk of that revenue. This needs to change.

Cheapest ticket for Finland - Great Britain game is 175€ (185$). Non Finland games are also quite expensive (starting from 35€+).
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Agreed. Makes no sense.
jonas2244 said:
If you need money to play for your country you shouldn't play for your country.
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Attitudes like these are what enables this slave labour. Of the profit, players should be making at least half. More players would be coming to play if they earned hundreds of thousands doing so. Players are what enable the event, why should they work for free? Why do hockey federation employees who essentially just sit around making up more and more ridiculous ticket prices pocket the profit instead of the players who actually deliver the product people come to watch?

If we have this "work for free" attitude, then why aren't the games free entry? Why do they sell TV rights instead of streaming for free? Why do suits get to make money but players don't?
 
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Omark said:
No, you don't. Russia is the only exception, and surprisingly they have huge bonuses for joining & winning (offered by the Russian federation).
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I can name at least a dozen Swiss players who followed every call if they were healthy.
 
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Jagr used to play damn near every time he could................and he was Jaromir f***in Jagr, not some 3rd line hood.
 
ijuka said:
Agreed. Makes no sense.

Attitudes like these are what enables this slave labour. Of the profit, players should be making at least half. More players would be coming to play if they earned hundreds of thousands doing so. Players are what enable the event, why should they work for free? Why do hockey federation employees who essentially just sit around making up more and more ridiculous ticket prices pocket the profit instead of the players who actually deliver the product people come to watch?

If we have this "work for free" attitude, then why aren't the games free entry? Why do they sell TV rights instead of streaming for free? Why do suits get to make money but players don't?
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Its not true that the players get Nothing, all players will get money/Bonus for what place they will end on. They invite the all family like holiday kind of a trip for free. iihf is using most of the money to support youth hockey all over the world, sure the ticket price will be high for the home team
 
Czechs, Russians, Germans and Swiss have no trouble getting their NHL players to play for their country at Worlds. Sweden has so many players so they ice a good team every time despite all the declines they get every year as well. Most of Finns decline and its even worse for the US and Canada.

Its annoying as a massive fan of Finnish national team.
 
I understand why the IIHF pushed back the start date of this tourney compared to years ago. They likely felt participation would get better because players can rest up a bit before having to come play.

I almost now feel (for the North American teams), that it might be having the reverse effect. Players now "mulling" offers over start to relax and spend time with friends & family and seem to not want to come versus having to decide soon as the season ended while they are still running on emotion to make that call.

Once these guys cool down that fire to play even more hockey seems to fade a bit as well. I almost would rather it goes back to what it was where players who were pissed they missed the playoffs had like 48 hours to decide are you in or out..
 
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AmericanDream said:
Remember I did say Colin White last week lol!!!

Disappointing since Brady has turned this team down now at least 3 years in a row I believe? Not a good look for a Tkachuk who is on the cusp of any World Cup teams...
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He is hurt. It's too bad about Norris as he would have played if he had a contract.
 
jaro said:


So jon gillies will be goalie
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That better be Clark Gillies.....
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bert said:
He is hurt. It's too bad about Norris as he would have played if he had a contract.
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Past 3 years he declined...I am sure he is banged up, he plays a rough game. But at some point you have to say yes to the call especially when you were a USNDP member for 2 years prior...
 
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