The Four Nations Tournament Thread

VanillaCoke

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I'd rather he gets the rest along with all the nucks, but nice accomplishment and recognition for Lankinen.
 

Bertuzzzi44

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Would prefer our Stars be rested for the stretch drive and playoffs tbh.

4 teams in a gimmick tournament, no thanks.

Better than the All-Star game tho and a week off will be helpful to banged up players.
 
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supercanuck

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am i the only one hoping Petey didn't get the call and get 2 weeks to rest and train up

The flipside is he somehow reignites his offensive mojo in this tournament especially if he gets to play with Nylander/Forsberg, but I totally see your POV as well.
 

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I wish our stars would decline to attend.

Would prefer our Stars be rested for the stretch drive and playoffs tbh.

4 teams in a gimmick tournament, no thanks.

Better than the All-Star game tho and a week off will be helpful to banged up players.

Yeah agreed, this looks like a giant waste of time. I much prefer the Olympics if we're gonna have a best on best ditty.
 

ManVanFan

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They might as well play Heiskenen-Lindell 60 minutes. I didn’t realize there were that few high-end, Finnish Defencmen
Finns all together are not providing a lot of talent to the NHL. Since 2009 draft only 15 Finns outside the 1st round are currently playing in the NHL. Basically 1 Finn outside the round per year.
The first round rate is only about 1 per year as well. 21 since 2010 draft.
There is usually about 15 Finns drafted per year.
 

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This will be an epic tournament.

USA, Canada and Sweden are massive favorites.

Russia could win but you cannot count out the Czechs or Swiss to make a surprise run.

not sure why they didn't just do a global team instead of finland. get ovechkin included, avoid "russia" as a flag... also include guys like kopitar, josi, who are punished from being from smaller hockey countries, on top of malkin, kucherov, vasi, etc.

but no, need to preserve the sanctity of this classic tournament. they couldn't have possibly proceeded with calling it the nhl cup instead of the "four nations"...
 
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arttk

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not sure why they didn't just do a global team instead of finland. get ovechkin included, avoid "russia" as a flag... also include guys like kopitar, josi, who are punished from being from smaller hockey countries, on top of malkin, kucherov, vasi, etc.

but no, need to preserve the sanctity of this classic tournament. they couldn't have possibly proceeded with calling it the nhl cup instead of the "four nations"...
because global team is even more gimmicky
 

vancityluongo

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because global team is even more gimmicky

then they could just go to the olympics lol and let the ioc decide if russians can play

as is, having bettman and co. use their discretion is stupid

anyways, the us would win either way... which is gonna be wildly annoying. hope canada or sweden can pull one off. hughes doesn't need this to bolster the hhof resume
 

Mr. Canucklehead

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I don't really know what to make of this event. I'll watch it - and I'm sure it'll be better than the crap that has been the All Star Game/festivities the last few years. But only inviting 4 teams is a buzzkill.
 
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