LtnCastillo
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Countries who have less stars are hurt the most if those stars aren't there. So even if a country like Canada is missing players who are better then the players a country like Germany is missing, those players are far more important to Germany than the others are for Canada, as Canada's replacement players are of a much higher caliber than Germany's are. Especially in comparison to the players they replace.
Agreed. Hope phaneuf_fan got it too, finally. Team Canada wouldn't be totally screwed if they lost their 3 best defencemen, say, Pronger, Nieds and Phaneuf. But with Germany without Seidenberg, Ehroff and Schubert things may go south bigtime. Hope Deutschland manages to get things going today against Norway. I've always had sympathy for "Ze Germans" in the IHWC.
About this thread's main subject, the almighty Power Rankings: they somehow always manage to hit their target. It's strange that the "official site" of the games has something as "unofficial" as these. I wonder who are the masterminds behind this.