Will the 4 Nations tournament have any sway in terms of HOF candidacy?

[Tie Domi Esquire]

Matthews is going in early for having some chances and scoring 1 more assist than Jordan Binnington.

 

[Dallas Winston]

Easily the highest level of hockey played anywhere since the 87 canada cup. People like seeing teams like germany, latvia etc getting smoked. These were 4 of the 5 best teams in the world going best on best.

It is the same reason the euro cup (more so when it was only 16 teams) is a much higher quality of competition than the World cup. Every team in the euro cup are strong and can do some damage.

 

[SnowblindNYR]

why would it. At the end of the day it was a glorified all star game

I took it the same but the players for sure acted like it was more than an All Star game. So I don't know how it's seen around the league. But if it was just a one off tournament that answers my question.

 

[Lunatik]

Can't they just make it a 6 nation tournament with Czechia included?

5-Nation makes more sense since the format was a round robin followed by a championship game, and the Czechia team would need to bring in minor leaguers or players from Europe. This would only add 1 more game per team.

 

[GeeoffBrown]

Well, MacKinnon was MVP and I'm pretty sure he's got a shot at HOF LOL

 

[GrkFlyersFan]

It was a one time thing, so no.

It only replaced the ASG this year. NHL is bringing it back next year and the year after, until the 2028 World Cup.

Repeat this louder for ESPN and similar outlets trying to make a point about All-Star Games! It was a soft re-opening of best-on-best international hockey after a 9 year hiatus, no more, no less.

 

[Eternal Leaf]

It can be a nice addition to your legacy alongside other major awards or of course cups.

It's like icing on the cake, especially if the player has additional international success too such as the Olympics or World Championship.

 

[CatOTails]

The 4 nation thing is only possibly because Russia is banned, as soon as Russia is back, there will never be 4 nation tournament as it means dropping Finland or Sweden

One can simply rename it to "Nations Tournament" or "Hockey Nations Tournament" leaving out "4". Would make sense to add Czech Republic into equation. Quick googling shows they have 40 active players in NHL, wonder why they haven't ben invited.

 

[DearDiary]

Nope. It was an all star game tournament where the players decided to compete hard.

 

[Voight]

Really? I thought it would replace the ASG until they decided to change it. So why did they decide on it randomly this year?



Can't they just make it a 6 nation tournament with Czechia included?

It had been 9 years since the last World Cup and 11 years since the last true best on best tournament so they wanted to satisfy the players and fans demand for some sort of international tournament. McDavid for example was open about his disdain for the lack of high stakes international hockey. So between agreeing to go back to the Olympics and deciding to do a new international calendar with that and the World Cup, they put this together just to calm everyone down and give them something.

They've been vocal about their plan to have the ASG at UBS Arena next year and then have all the players (who were chosen for the game) depart for the Olympics from there. They're only cancelling the ASG in years where they are going to have a proper World Cup (28, 32, 34 etc).