v-man
Registered User
All the talk of a format change is just stupid. If there are only four teams that can battle for a medal, then what's the point of the tournament in the fist place? What if two or three of the bottom five teams in McKenzies proposal are better than some in the first? A very plausible scenario. With the junior format a team that's bad one year can be dominant the next. Those that want to bring it back to 8 teams would still see games like Canada/Latvia. Latvia is the eight ranked team. And they played well under their potential yesterday. Had they played like they did that last two periods of the Slovakia game, the score would probably have been 4-2 instead of 16-0. They simply didn't show up and got **** goal tending from their starter. They're not actually THAT bad. They did beat Russia a few days earlier.