Who else has very little interest in the Four Nations tournament?

[Grifter3511]

Get real. Making millions (NHLers get paid for regular season only) is exponentially more meaningful to players than playing for their country.

You'd be hard pressed to find an NHLer who will voluntarily terminate his contract to play in a best-v-best.

Playing in the nhl is their job. They do it day in, day out, 8-9 months of the year. You think players get excited to fly into Utah on a Wednesday night in February, or for an afternoon game in Seattle on a Sunday in November? Same shit, different day for the majority of the year.

I have a job that covers my cost of living, and it's a job that most would consider somewhat meaningful, but there are numerous things that I do outside of my job that I find more meaningful than my job. Would I give up my job for them? Of course not, I need to live and they don't pay my bills. But livelihood and 'meaningfulness' or whatever you want to call it are not synonymous.

Of course players would rather make millions. It's not an either or. But I bet every single player who made their international team is more excited about this change of routine than they are about any single regular season games they'll play.

Edit: it would be interesting to get a non-NHL sanctioned anonymous poll from players in the NHL who didn't make their national teams on whether they would give up the two week break to play for their country if asked, or if they'd prefer the time off.

 

[Grifter3511]

I own it. And I am happy to say I changed my mind. I was getting excited for this as time went on and I was glad to see it back last night.

Good on you! It happens from time to time, but it's also pretty rare to see posters change their opinions, or admit they were wrong (not that you were wrong in this instance. You can't be wrong about how you feel about something) and not just double down, move the goalposts or ghost the thread.

Hopefully your namesake keeps up the inspired play tomorrow night!

 

[nORRis8]

I must admit, my interest in the tourney was next to nil.
After watching the Canada Sweden game my enthusiasm picked up.
Now to see tomorrow night US v Canada plus as a Bruins fan to see two bitter foes Marchand and Bennett on the same line...very watchable.

 

[CharasLazyWrister]

If you are going to complain and whine about the posters who are not into the tournament this thread is not for you. Let them be. Move along and enjoy the tournament. Thanks.

Ah yes. Page upon page of “complaining and whining” for months leading up to the tournament about how it was a joke, not worth anyone’s time, and plenty of implicit and explicit patronization of posters willing to give it a chance. Maybe I missed it, but didn’t see much in the way of mod activity after the entire thread about the tournament became mostly posters claiming they had no interest in it and it was stupid.

Along comes an undeniably great hockey game with an inevitable number of posters with the opine that all the naysayers were dead wrong about the quality of hockey that we ended up seeing. An obvious result given the general tone of the thread for months leading up to the tournament. Somehow it only takes hours for a line to suddenly be drawn.

Brilliant work.