Iron Balls McGinty
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So, if players try to bail out on the team during the season to attend the Olympics, how would you feel? I'm not sure I like the idea of playing 3 weeks without Bob.
Wennberg would make Sweden
It would depend on if they let the old guys give it one more go - Zetterberg, Sedins, etc.
Then there's Rakell and Backstrom, maybe Steen, ahead of Wennberg.
The Olympics are a bigger corporation
I think Bob is more of a team guy. He'd stay. However it would also probably be his last chance to win/play in an Olympics. So who knows.
If the Olympics had NHL players I think...
Bjork would make Denmark
Wennberg would make Sweden
Bob would make Russia
Saad, Jones and MAYBE Cam would make USA
Nutivaara and Korpi MAY make Finland
Foligno and Werenski MAY make USA
Maybe I'm in a minority over this but I personally am a fan of the CBJ more than the US Olympic team. I hate the 3 week shutdown for most of February to squeeze in the Olympics.
Players can be upset all they want but everyone knows this is exactly why the World Cup was restarted.
You think JJ's Team USA days are over?
Yeah. Suter, Jones, McDonagh, Shattenkirk, Faulk, Trouba, Werenski, Fowler, and probably others are over him. That's just at the top of my head.
The irony of that tweet. Good grief! It's literally bizarro-world.
I want them to play in the Olympics. It's the best hockey there is and it's terribly sad if players back down to a bunch of corporations.
Maybe I'm in a minority over this but I personally am a fan of the CBJ more than the US Olympic team. I hate the 3 week shutdown for most of February to squeeze in the Olympics.
Players can be upset all they want but everyone knows this is exactly why the World Cup was restarted.
So the NHL was prepared to ask for more. They had, before Sochi, asked for increased marketing opportunities and increased access to video highlights. The IOC asked them to kiss the ring and then kiss … well, you know.
Then the IOC, under new president Thomas Bach, made a decision in 2016 that really sent this thing off the rails: The IOC would no longer fund NHL players to attend the Winter Olympics, as they had in the previous five events.
According to Nick Butler of Inside the Games, it’s believed the IOC paid approximately $14 million on top of $18 million contributed by the IIHF on transportation and insurance to have NHL players attend the Sochi Games in 2014. IIHF President Rene Fasel believed those costs could be reduced to $10 million for PyeongChang, but the fact remained that the IOC wasn’t paying them any longer, and obviously wouldn’t be sharing any revenues with the NHL, either.
The NHL and its owners went from asking for more from the IOC, to getting nothing. And the IOC asked the hockey community to pay $32 million as, basically, an entrance fee to their party.
(Adapted from another post of mine elsewhere on the subject)
From http://sports.yahoo.com/news/hate-t...-players-missing-2018-olympics-120841649.html (emphasis added);
Whatever your position on the NHL wanting more from the IOC, the fact is that the IOC's response to the NHL inquiring was to take away what they already were getting. That's one hell of a "**** you". And the IIHF tried to cover it by pulling cash from developmental leagues around the world. So, yeah, given that, this decision isn't shocking at all.
(Adapted from another post of mine elsewhere on the subject)
From http://sports.yahoo.com/news/hate-t...-players-missing-2018-olympics-120841649.html (emphasis added);
Whatever your position on the NHL wanting more from the IOC, the fact is that the IOC's response to the NHL inquiring was to take away what they already were getting. That's one hell of a "**** you". And the IIHF tried to cover it by pulling cash from developmental leagues around the world. So, yeah, given that, this decision isn't shocking at all.
Does Fetisov really think guys are going to walk out on multi-million dollar jobs for 1 tournament? Is so he is delusional.
What's ironic is, he was one of the first, if not the first, to flee the soviet union to play for the NHL. It was a huge deal at the time (during the cold war). He literally did the opposite of what he's telling players to do today.
Ristolainen, Vatanen, Maata, Lepisto, and Hietanen are all playing well and were on the last Finnish Olympic team.Nutivaara and Korpi MAY make Finland