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World Cup of Hockey to Return (Feb 2024)

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I think I might be the only person that’s absolutely jacked having this tournament, the last one was extremely fun, and the Olympics are still going to happen two years later, best on best hockey is the best f***ing hockey.
 
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I'll take 8 pm games on NHL rinks with NHL broadcast teams over the Olympics any day.

It's not like the Olympics have an especially rich best on best history.
 
I enjoyed the Canada cups alot, but the previous WC with team Europe and team north American teenagers was a joke. Make it nation against nation. Team Finland will be able to beat anyone.
 
If NHL wants to add gimmick teams, countries should pick gimmick rosters to highlight the joke. Team NA young stars vs. Sweden U18 left handed players only. Finland Alumni U60 vs Czechia 80s NHL players.

The prestige and nostalgia where Tikkanen shadows McDavid around the ice yapping. "Is this what you wanted NHL, because this is what we're sending".
 
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The Hanging Jowl said:
Dunno how old you are but in Canada, the Earth stood still for the Canada Cup (which evolved into the World Cup) back when it started and allowed best on best to finally happen. It's only when NHL Olympic participation started in '98 that it lost its magic.
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The earth stood still for Crosbys Golden Goal too. There was plenty of magic in the Olympics. And the 98 Olympics had far more prestige and importance among everyone I knew than the 96 World Cup.
 
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TheDoldrums said:
The earth stood still for Crosbys Golden Goal too. There was plenty of magic in the Olympics. And the 98 Olympics had far more prestige and importance among everyone I knew than the 96 World Cup.
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I mean, I literally said the World Cup lost it's magic once NHL participation started in the Olympics in '98. We're saying the exact same thing.
 
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NyQuil said:
He would have been there.

Lindros played in the 1991 Canada Cup before he even played a game in the NHL.
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Maybe, I don’t remember that ever being a foregone conclusion. Regardless, McDavid isn't the only young player who wouldn't have been showcased in the tournament. That team had a cult-like following, and I would welcome back a similar concept with open arms.
 
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I think I might be the only person that’s absolutely jacked having this tournament, the last one was extremely fun, and the Olympics are still going to happen two years later, best on best hockey is the best f***ing hockey.
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I love international hockey, but BEST v BEST international hockey is a whole other spectacle. It's truly a privilege to watch it when it occurs, be it Olympics or World Cup. I'll take a properly organized World Cup tournament over a boring all star weekend any day. Gonna be some of the wildest hockey ever.
 
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So they want it to be with 10 teams and one of the divisions or groups or whatever it will be called will play their games in Europe? Sound gimmicky as f***.
 
Guys, chill. We're not getting any gimmick teams.

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The Hanging Jowl said:
Dunno how old you are but in Canada, the Earth stood still for the Canada Cup (which evolved into the World Cup) back when it started and allowed best on best to finally happen. It's only when NHL Olympic participation started in '98 that it lost its magic.
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The infrequency of Canada Cup/World Cup killed the prestige of the tournament. Now that people got a taste of the Olympics with little to no World Cups for large span of time, people see greater prestige in an Olympic Gold and see the World Cup of more a gimmick. I don't know if they can build it up to that level ever again.
 
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varsaku said:
The infrequency of Canada Cup/World Cup killed the prestige of the tournament. Now that people got a taste of the Olympics with little to no World Cups for large span of time, people see greater prestige in an Olympic Gold and see the World Cup of more a gimmick. I don't know if they can build it up to that level ever again.
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The way they build the prestige is by committing to it long term. That is the single thing that has killed international hockey in general. Nobody can count on anything happening....ever. Come up with a international calendar and f***ing stick to it. If there is going to be a World Cup every 4 years alternating on the Olympics, eventually it will gain more prestige, not immediately but it will happen. But if you have the tournament once a decade or so when you get the urge...yeah nobody is going to give a f***.
 
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NyQuil said:
If the rosters are good and there are no gimmick teams, I’ll watch it.

I watched the 2004 World Cup and there were some epic games, like the OT semifinal where Jagr was beasting against Canada and Lecavalier scored the winner, and Finland making the final of a best on best tournament only to lose a relatively close game.

Whether it’s the Olympics or the World Cup doesn’t matter to me. It’s the rosters that count. If it takes place in February when the players are in prime shape, all the better.

In football, no one cares about the Olympics because the World Cup is the signature event.

There’s nothing particularly special about the Olympics when it comes to team sports.
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I always loved the Canada cups, and world cups.

But two things happened that cheapened its brand.

1) Nhl going to the Olympics. The Olympic stage dwarfs the world cup stage. This was a minor thing for me because you were still attracting the best players to the world cup, but I did feel that it had become secondary to the Olympic games

2) The gimmick teams. This is when I stopped watching. It's no longer world cup. It resembles something closer to a competitive version of the all star game, and I found myself with zero emotional investment.
 
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