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

[Albatros]

Not the dunk you think it is. I would be embarrassed if my source of national pride was a bronze medal in some ice hockey tournament.

For a country like Latvia such achievements are almost existential.

 

[WhiskeyYerTheDevils]

I was really looking forward to seeing Johnny Gaudreau finally get a chance to represent the USA in a best on best, so yeah my interest level has dropped a bit. He always seemed to raise his game in international tournaments.

Still, it's better than nothing.

 

[WhiskeyYerTheDevils]

Not the dunk you think it is. I would be embarrassed if my source of national pride was a bronze medal in some ice hockey tournament.

Latvia has less than 2M people. That would be like forming a team from Idaho and watching them take down Canada.

 

[JoVel]

Not the dunk you think it is. I would be embarrassed if my source of national pride was a bronze medal in some ice hockey tournament.

I think it's a much better source of national pride than, for example, bombing civilians in the Middle East.

 

[Reality Czech]

Not the dunk you think it is. I would be embarrassed if my source of national pride was a bronze medal in some ice hockey tournament.

I wasn't trying to "dunk" on you, just stating a fact. Every other hockey country actually cares how their national team does. I say this as an American who's lived in Europe for almost two decades. You can lose the attitude now.

 

[Albatros]

It's not like the players themselves are free to take part either.

 

[brentashton]

Hey, let’s shut the league down so 12 percent of the players in the league can play in a fun tournament.,oh, and let’s limit it to those players born in these 4 countries and if your are from anywhere else, you’re are not eligible.

The consolation prize is those players will halve to spend the 10 days in the middle of winter in some tropical getaway spot.

Will casually be interested/watch, at best, like a San Jose v Buffalo game in mid February.

 

[WayTooCold]

Total waste of time. Like all international team games.

 

[torniojaws]

Another Canada Cup where each team plays 3 games and goes home? Waste of time.

 

[D Wakaluk]

Tbh most every nation in the world has committed war crimes and continues to do so to this day. I'm not going to get into specific examples to start that derail but my point is all countries do terrible shit so excluding Russian players on the basis of what Russia is currently doing is unfair to them.

If you're gonna hold one nation accountable, hold them all accountable.

No. Just no.

Russia knows exactly what to do if they want to play ice hockey again. They choose not to.

Go spew this bullshit somewhere else.

 

[BertCorbeau]

Forgot this is still a thing

What a waste

 

[brentashton]

Could be great! It's best against best and the players will play for their home country. More likely for them to push and try to win. As for Russia, they should have a special draft where each of the four nations get to pick the Russian stars one by one.

That being said, this thread is a good way to identify the people on here who are against fun. The NHL is trying to bring back international competition and we still got people bitching and whining about it before the tourney has even been played.

Uhm, that’s because it’s a seriously flawed tournament right from the start. But you go ahead and enjoy the 3rd rate entertainment you purport it to be.

 

[hangman005]

With all due respect, only American fans believe this.

I'm not American and I believe this.

 

[Derailed75]

4 teams 30 is players per team means that a whole lot of player that are very important to their team are going to get a week of rest and injury rehab. All the Russians will be fresh. The Cane's got a decent amount of Russians so as a Cane's fan I like it.