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Kapol   Poland. May 17 2012 12:39. Posts 4696
Hey,

I'm not interested in hockey, but there's one think that bothers me, now that I've stumbled upon an article regarding the World Championships, which are taking place at the moment.
Do the USA and Canada send the very best players to compete in major international tournaments (aka Basketball's Dream Team), or do they just send some mediocre guys who may or may not win the title? What about the very best players from other nations, like Russia and Sweden?

Some entertainment:





http://www.timesoccer.com/video/03/15...ester-city-live-match-highlights.html
Skip to 25:00. Manchester City vs QPR - last game of the English Premier League season. City is down 1-2 and with only 5 minutes of injury time to go and they need 2 goals to win the title. Incredible.

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FarmMylife   Canada. May 17 2012 12:46. Posts 111

It depends on where they are during the NHL season. Unless its the Olympics then the NHL will go on hold for the Winter Olympics. I think each team tries to get the best possible players however a lot of the time NHL players will decline as they just played a 82 game season and the risk of getting injured at the tournament. Most hockey players would rather win a Stanley Cup rather then the World Championships or an Olympic gold medal imho.


TampaBayMat   United States. May 17 2012 12:57. Posts 249

Shouldn't this go under "General" ......

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Hoolz_1907   United Kingdom. May 17 2012 13:07. Posts 2791

Ehm it's a blog he can write / ask whatever he wants? And also <3 Louis CK

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barbieman   Sweden. May 17 2012 13:22. Posts 2132

A guesstimate would be that Sweden usually gets about 50% of the players they ask from the NHL. We have a really good team offensively this year. But we're only the 3rd or 4th best team imo. The team that has played the best hockey, at least periodically, that I've seen is Canada and they sorta screwed themselves in the Quarter Finals vs. Slovakia and lost.

WC should be played every other year imo, at least not the same year as the Olympics. It's not nearly as prestigious as it should be and not as interesting to watch because of it. I also think they should always play on smaller rinks, makes for more entertaining hockey.


dogmeat   Czech Republic. May 17 2012 13:30. Posts 6374

these soccer fags ...

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Hoolz_1907   United Kingdom. May 17 2012 13:31. Posts 2791

Jim Carrey is so terrible as a stand-up comedian, as an actor he is OK but god this really is not funny.

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Gumster   Sweden. May 17 2012 19:13. Posts 2290


  On May 17 2012 12:31 Hoolz_1907 wrote:
Jim Carrey is so terrible as a stand-up comedian, as an actor he is OK but god this really is not funny.



dont ever comment on comedy again. ever.

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Hoolz_1907   United Kingdom. May 17 2012 19:23. Posts 2791

lol seriously? what is funny about that bit. Second of all it's just an opinion, I really fail to see anything funny about anything Jim Carrey ever did as a stand-up comedian, and yes I've seen quite a bit of him.

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Kapol   Poland. May 17 2012 20:15. Posts 4696

Someone doesn't like Jim? Who cares, everyone has the right to like/hate anything they want. I hate when someone hates that someone else hates something the former does not hate.

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Bejamin1   Canada. May 18 2012 16:47. Posts 7042

The NHL playoffs are still on and many players generally decline after the long grind of an 82 game schedule + pre-season and post-season play. None of the biggest countries have all of their talent to choose from. It's pure luck who ends up sending the strongest team out of the biggest countries just based on who is willing to go and who's already out of the playoffs. The worlds are basically just a giant joke of a tournament. It really should be an amateur thing. The Olympics are the only thing currently where all the stars from every country are actually present.

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Fraser   Canada. May 18 2012 18:39. Posts 4605


  On May 17 2012 12:22 barbieman wrote:
A guesstimate would be that Sweden usually gets about 50% of the players they ask from the NHL. We have a really good team offensively this year. But we're only the 3rd or 4th best team imo. The team that has played the best hockey, at least periodically, that I've seen is Canada and they sorta screwed themselves in the Quarter Finals vs. Slovakia and lost.

WC should be played every other year imo, at least not the same year as the Olympics. It's not nearly as prestigious as it should be and not as interesting to watch because of it. I also think they should always play on smaller rinks, makes for more entertaining hockey.



A smaller rink? thats interesting, everyone here wants to go for a bigger rink to circumvent the stifling defensive systems that dominated the league again this year. That or bigger nets... or some stupid "3-in-the-key" rule for hockey - lol.


Graisseux   Canada. Jun 15 2012 16:42. Posts 474

^ I had exact same thought, large rinks are fresh air to me.


 



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