Your dream tournament?

[WayTooCold]

What would be your dream tournament if you could choose.
Let's assume politicians are not ruining anything.
As competitive as possible.

My 6 team tournament.

1. Canada
2. USA
3. Russia ( + Belarus )
4. Team Scandinavia ( Sweden + Norway + Denmark + Finland )
5. Czechoslovakia ( Czechia + Slovakia )
6. Team Europe ( Germany + Switzerland + Latvia, etc )

Canada roster atm:

Forwards (13)


Sam Bennett, Florida Panthers
Anthony Cirelli, Tampa Bay Lightning
Sidney Crosby, Pittsburgh Penguins*
Brandon Hagel, Tampa Bay Lightning
Seth Jarvis, Carolina Hurricanes
Travis Konecny, Philadelphia Flyers
Nathan MacKinnon, Colorado Avalanche*
Brad Marchand, Boston Bruins*
Mitch Marner, Toronto Maple Leafs
Connor McDavid, Edmonton Oilers*
Brayden Point, Tampa Bay Lightning*
Sam Reinhart, Florida Panthers
Mark Stone, Vegas Golden Knights


Defensemen (7)


Cale Makar, Colorado Avalanche*
Josh Morrissey, Winnipeg Jets
Colton Parayko, St. Louis Blues
Alex Pietrangelo, Vegas Golden Knights
Travis Sanheim, Philadelphia Flyers
Shea Theodore, Vegas Golden Knights
Devon Toews, Colorado Avalanche


Goalies (3)


Jordan Binnington, St. Louis Blues
Adin Hill, Vegas Golden Knights
Sam Montembeault, Montreal Canadiens

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[Macbanan]

1. Sweden
2. Finland
3. Russia
4. Czechia
5. Slovakia
6. Germany
7. United France (France + French speaking Canada)
8. Western North America
9. Eastern North America

 

[jcbio11]

My dream is to have no made up countries in international hockey. Makes us look dumb. Could you imagine Team North America in soccer? Would be ridiculous.

As for quality, 16 countries is clearly too many, so if we're going for quality, a 10 country tourney would be great. With NHLers obviously. So basically next Olympics hopefully.

 

[JackSlater]

The 8 strongest national teams.

 

[Czechboy]

Best on best Olympics is my dream. More specifically in a European or North American City so the timezones aren't insane. February, everyone in form and everyone available from NHL and Europe.

Oh, and host nation is good at hockey.

 

[Ben White]

What would be your dream tournament if you could choose.
Let's assume politicians are not ruining anything.
As competitive as possible.

My 6 team tournament.

1. Canada
2. USA
3. Russia ( + Belarus )
4. Team Scandinavia ( Sweden + Norway + Denmark + Finland )
5. Czechoslovakia ( Czechia + Slovakia )
6. Team Europe ( Germany + Switzerland + Latvia, etc )

Canada roster atm:

Forwards (13)


Sam Bennett, Florida Panthers
Anthony Cirelli, Tampa Bay Lightning
Sidney Crosby, Pittsburgh Penguins*
Brandon Hagel, Tampa Bay Lightning
Seth Jarvis, Carolina Hurricanes
Travis Konecny, Philadelphia Flyers
Nathan MacKinnon, Colorado Avalanche*
Brad Marchand, Boston Bruins*
Mitch Marner, Toronto Maple Leafs
Connor McDavid, Edmonton Oilers*
Brayden Point, Tampa Bay Lightning*
Sam Reinhart, Florida Panthers
Mark Stone, Vegas Golden Knights


Defensemen (7)


Cale Makar, Colorado Avalanche*
Josh Morrissey, Winnipeg Jets
Colton Parayko, St. Louis Blues
Alex Pietrangelo, Vegas Golden Knights
Travis Sanheim, Philadelphia Flyers
Shea Theodore, Vegas Golden Knights
Devon Toews, Colorado Avalanche


Goalies (3)


Jordan Binnington, St. Louis Blues
Adin Hill, Vegas Golden Knights
Sam Montembeault, Montreal Canadiens

Any international tournament with gimmick teams is a nightmare tournament not a dream.

 

[Ben White]

This parity idea which is exclusive for the North American pro leagues is poison for the very fundamentals of what constitutes sports. Wouldn’t be surprised if it the idea more or less has it’s roots in WWE - professional wrestling, which as you know in contrary to amateur wrestling is staged and all about entertainment and nothing about honest battle. Parity leagues and tournaments is somewhere in between real sports and WWE.

 

[dr robbie]

Honestly, a dream tournament IMO would be something along the lines of the all star game, but with the players trying to compete and with something on the line. And all players worldwide are eligible and there's no dumb "every team has to be represented" rule. I don't care about where a player was born or their professional team, so dividing based on nationality is boring to me and also creates unfair teams. Just a best-on-best tournament with actual competition.

 

[Ben White]

Canada
USA
Sweden
Russia
Finland
Czech
Germany
Switzerland

Great competitive tournament with enough stars on each team. Anything can happen. And no gimmick teams. This is the World Cup of hockey I’m waiting for.

Honestly, a dream tournament IMO would be something along the lines of the all star game, but with the players trying to compete and with something on the line. And all players worldwide are eligible and there's no dumb "every team has to be represented" rule. I don't care about where a player was born or their professional team, so dividing based on nationality is boring to me and also creates unfair teams. Just a best-on-best tournament with actual competition.

You won’t get actual competition if the players aren’t representing anything like a nation or a club.

 

[dr robbie]

You won’t get actual competition if the players aren’t representing anything like a nation or a club.

I understand that, but there are other motivators. Keeping in mind this is a "dream" situation, so all bets are off. Throw enough money into the tournament and everyone would be motivated. Or do something out of the box like the winners get to add/remove a number of players from the HHOF. Doesn't always have to be about a nation in my opinion.

 

[Bonin21]

How is this a question?

Olympics with everyone there including Russia.

 

[Ben White]

I understand that, but there are other motivators. Keeping in mind this is a "dream" situation, so all bets are off. Throw enough money into the tournament and everyone would be motivated. Or do something out of the box like the winners get to add/remove a number of players from the HHOF. Doesn't always have to be about a nation in my opinion.

It’s a team game though so if you’re not actually representing a team the competitiveness will be more or less manufactured like in the all star game.

 

[Boonk]

I understand that, but there are other motivators. Keeping in mind this is a "dream" situation, so all bets are off. Throw enough money into the tournament and everyone would be motivated. Or do something out of the box like the winners get to add/remove a number of players from the HHOF. Doesn't always have to be about a nation in my opinion.

Players want to represent their actual country at these events, not some mismash team "rest of Europe that isnt Finland, Sweden and Russia" or "U23 guys from Canada and US"