I can never get into this. Club teams, versus countries, with club teams having nationalities already represented on competing teams on account of already playing for the club team, etc. I just can't invest myself into something that really doesn't represent much of substance....that I know of. Correct me if I'm wrong. Talent wise, yeah, it may be better than WJC, but the key ingredient in international tournaments, to me, is best-on-best. WJC is best-on-best of international junior talent. Obviously when NHLers go to the Olympics, that is the pinnacle of international ice hockey competition, but its intrigue is cut from the same cloth as WJC: best-on-best.
