Myers to the box for a crosscheck into the boards.
Lol...um...yeah...40 minutes ago.
Maybe I should not comment since it seems like You guys are delayed in getting the feed.
Haha didn't realize NHL Network wasn't live.
Can I ask a question? What if the host team is god awful. Is it really all that fun to be in this thing?
They announce it ahead of time well before the year starts who's going to be the host team. So that team knows they have a spot in it no matter what so they're typically more active in adding pieces throughout the offseason & in season to improve the team.
They do a bidding process between teams of whatever league it is turn to host the tournament. They typically just give the bid to the team with the most resources. Windsor was announced recently as the host team for next year for example. They had a good youngish team this year that should improve next plus whatever they bring in going forward. They own the rights to Clayton Keller so they'll probably be hoping an NHL team that drafts him will turn him into the OHL route.
So it kind of just works out that the host team is better than average?