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Venting about Olympic Men's Ice Hockey

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whynot888

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Team canada shouldve just got the whole junior team. I think they would of showed better than a bunch of retired nhl'ers
 

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We were not expected to win and we didn't. So it's no big deal. So for half a day we didn't get that warm feeling of supposedly being the best. Whatever.

I saw some comments from Willie Desjardins this morning and they were refreshing. He knew going in it was going to be tough, he knows Canada expects the gold, and he knows it's a thankless job. But his goal was to come away with a medal - achieved. He thought it was great for a bunch of athletes who wouldn't get the chance to compete were given the opportunity to do so. And for the longest time until 1998, NHL wasn't participating in the Olympics so this is just going back to the way it was.
 

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2022 China larger audience to promote the game. The NHL played exhibition games there already. NHL will be at the 2022 Olympics. 2026 Olympics if Calgary wins the bid NHL will be there too.
 

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Less than four years later, the IOC readmits Russia after over a decade of systematic national cheating.
 

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Agreed. The funny thing is some people equate a gold medal to being the best. Sorry but that is not the case for certain sports. You have sports like track and field where the person who has the lowest time, the hardest throw, or the highest jump in the last year and is winning all the meets is almost guaranteed to get the gold unless something freakish happens. But when the favorite wins they are the best based on the measured values. But for sports like hockey or other competitive games, it's dependent on the players, the team, the coaches, the dynamic, and other factors. You see it in soccer where sometimes a team that isn't slated to do well ends up winning (e.g. Greece winning Eurocup).

So Canada didn't win but Canada didn't send its best (the NHL stars) so did we really lose? Under different circumstances we probably win.



Why the Bundesliga? Just because it's in Germany, the league has players from all over the world. Same with the other leagues. I know you're being sarcastic but at least be correct in the point...lol
After the German team hit rock bottom around the year 2000, they completely revamped and used the Bundesliga as the catalyst to propel their national team into a powerhouse, promoting German youth and coaches with centralized academies at all their clubs. It was a big talking point for many years when compared to the English league whose clubs often stifled the progression young English talent by bringing in cheap foreign players.

It’s actually you who has no idea what he’s talking about.

https://www.bundesliga.com/en/news/Bundesliga/0000297929.jsp
 
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