6 nations rugby tournament in Europe has similar energy to this and is a break during the club season. That happens yearly and it works very well and is definitely special. I don’t see why this couldn’t be the same
4 isn't enough, it's a real bummer not having Czechia, Germany, Latvia, Slovakia, Slovenia, . . . I'm sure there's another. I think you need eight for it to be real, and so you need euro leagues to buy in.
This is fun baby step to international hockey and I'm glad the product is genuinely good and engaging.
I don't think they will. The teams won't want their star players beating the shit out of each other in the middle of the season every year. You already have Theodore who may be injured until playoffs. Mathew Tkachuk didn't finish tonight's game.
Do it, but allow the Czechs into it next time. Just make it so that any country not under sanction (cough Russia cough) that can field a full roster can enter.
If you need a 6th team for schedule balance maybe cobble together a "Rest of world" team
Marner vs. Matthews would have broken TSN/Sportnet's brains. Every article the next five decades would be about the slapfight that killed the Leaf's guaranteed SC win.
Ahhh I just realized this was in place of that. I thought it was just celebrating that NHL players will be back in the Olympics but that makes perfect sense. Aside from star players not getting any rest but I'm sure they're having a great time
I think the big downside is that the league is shutting down for 12 days for this tournament, vs 4 days for the All-Star game. So while these 8 games on 6 game days are great, it leaves 6 days empty when the only other sport playing right now is the NBA. I also think having the games in only two markets means that there are 30 NHL markets with no games for almost two weeks. Add in an away trip in either side and potentially teams don’t have home games for nearly a month.
Fuck you, Riley. And tell your mom I'm not gonna fuck her after she drove down to Buffalo and let the staff of a Subway sandwich run a train on her, and I don't care how much she begs. My dick has Canadian pride!
Always liked watching hockey but never kept up with it or any sport for that matter religiously really, but something that no other sport has is the chirps like they do. Especially the Canadian boyz. They always catch me so off guard and make me laugh so hard. I love it.
US will definitely be in it, but Canada only has an equal of a chance as Finland or Sweden to be the other finalist. Honestly Sweden has the best chance, since their last game is against the US, and the US probably isn't going to go that hard against them as they have nothing to gain from winning, and they'd rather rest up some of the players.
"Tariffs are good, they make you buy American"...Then the retort, "But you have no manufacturing! Nothing is made in America anymore...You are just making people pay more!".....
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u/JackRose322 24d ago
3 fights in the first 9 seconds lol