Reality Czech
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If you can’t enjoy watching 75% of the best players on the planet playing for their country, what’s the point of being a hockey fan? It’s far from a perfect scenario but there is still plenty to like.If you want to toss quotes around pertaining to this “tournament”, here’s another that fits…
“If a thing’s worth doing, it’s worth doing right.” — Chinese Proverb
This tournament, shutting down the NHL mid season and not all of its stars having an opportunity to participate, is being done far from right/correctly.
To the second bolded statement, that would be an improvement towards getting the best players involved, but they didn’t do that and that’s why the 4 team tourney is a joke. Good old NHL and its half baked ideas.
I’d rather watch players shoot meat pucks at alligators.
Not sure that's really a thing.What about the whole “sports is outside politics” thing ?
Will they play hard like its the olympics though?If you can’t enjoy watching 75% of the best players on the planet playing for their country, what’s the point of being a hockey fan? It’s far from a perfect scenario but there is still plenty to like.
MacKinnon, McDavid, Makar finally playing together
US with its best team ever. Stacked at every position.
Both Scandinavian countries absolutely loaded with talent and capable of winning.
It's not.What about the whole “sports is outside politics” thing ?
The same thing that happened to no tolerance on talk about politics on here, apparentlyWhat about the whole “sports is outside politics” thing ?
not according to dictionary in UK"Could not care less" = You care, btw.
Meh. It’s a half assed attempt at a world class tournament . If I casually see a game or 2 that will be the max but I doubt I will watch even that. That’s ok, you enjoy. We’re humans we can all appreciate different things.If you can’t enjoy watching 75% of the best players on the planet playing for their country, what’s the point of being a hockey fan? It’s far from a perfect scenario but there is still plenty to like.
MacKinnon, McDavid, Makar finally playing together
US with its best team ever. Stacked at every position.
Both Scandinavian countries absolutely loaded with talent and capable of winning.
So their C depth, the most important position in hockey, is Malkin, Kuznetsov… Barbashev?Russia and Sweden are basically neck and neck for third best country.
Kucherov, Panarin, Kaprizov are all marquee forwards. Malkin and Ovechkin still kicking. Buchnevich, Kuzmenko, Svechnikov, Tarasenko, Barbashev, Nichushkin (maybe), Chinakhov, Kuznetsov, Marchenko, possibly even Michkov. There's a lot of solid options throughout a potential lineup.
On Defense, there's Sergachev, Provorov, Zadorov, Gavrikov, Romanov, Orlov, Mintyukov, Kulikov, Lyubushkin, Zub, Nikishin. Not exactly top tier but good enough to hold its own.
Best goaltending options in the world with Shesterkin, Vasilevskiy, Bobrovksy.
Russia would not be the favorite but could win on any given day.
See above.You serious?