jmc0131
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Cooley has looked great so far. Fun to watch him and Keller on a line with Thompson. This tournament will be good for Cooley.
Nearly 4am and discover USA is playing Germany right now and leading 3-0 in the first.
@Summer Rose should be up watching......![]()
Vejmelka made an early save on Cooley. However, Cooley kind of just shot it straight into his chest.
Are players paid to play in the worlds? I don't think so but not entirely sure.
If not, I think it's pretty cool that so many players head over there after their seasons are done. Especially the one who head over right after their teams are eliminated from the playoffs (not referring to Utah players... yet)
There is no direct payment merely for playing in the tournament, but there is prize money awarded based on how far you go in the tournament (e.g. getting eliminated in the preliminary round is the same amount, losing quarterfinalists all get the same amount, then 1-4 get a proportional amount of prize money). I have no idea how much the prize money is, however.
Additionally, the national federation is free to award bonuses based on your finish. An interesting case is when Finland got robbed of a gold medal by a bad call in overtime of the gold medal game at the women's tournament, the Finnish hockey federation awarded them the bonus that they would have gotten for winning gold.
Oh that's great! I didn't know about the Finnish federation doing that, that's so cool. At the same time though, I doubt the money is a lot (esp compared to NHL salaries) so still impressive these players are actively choosing to play additional hockey. That seems really cool to me.
Thx for letting me know! Appreciate you