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Majingir · 11-05-2015, 10:49 PM

Babcock named Team Canada coach for the world cup next year. Though he said what basically everyone is thinking. World Cup will be great and all, but it's no Olympics.

I think no matter what, NHL will be going to the Olympics. The world cup thing is a double profit move. Generate a profit from the tourney itself(which is being held in the biggest cash grabber city in sports,not to mention the heavy prices for ads), and once the IOC sees the NHL having their own international tourney, they might be making a move out of desperation and offering to pay for the NHL guys going over for Olympics,since they know that Olympic hockey needs the NHL more than the NHL needs Olympic hockey.

NHL needs to be at these Olympics though. They always talk about wanting to grow the game. Well..you have a chance to have the biggest hockey games played in Asia with the next 2 winter Olympics being in South Korea and China. So what better time to grow the sport,infront of a huge population where hockey isn't so popular.

11-05-2015, 10:49 PM	#58
Majingir Moderator OVR: 22 Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Toronto Posts: 44,394 Blog Entries: 1	Re: NHL Off-Topic thread Babcock named Team Canada coach for the world cup next year. Though he said what basically everyone is thinking. World Cup will be great and all, but it's no Olympics. I think no matter what, NHL will be going to the Olympics. The world cup thing is a double profit move. Generate a profit from the tourney itself(which is being held in the biggest cash grabber city in sports,not to mention the heavy prices for ads), and once the IOC sees the NHL having their own international tourney, they might be making a move out of desperation and offering to pay for the NHL guys going over for Olympics,since they know that Olympic hockey needs the NHL more than the NHL needs Olympic hockey. NHL needs to be at these Olympics though. They always talk about wanting to grow the game. Well..you have a chance to have the biggest hockey games played in Asia with the next 2 winter Olympics being in South Korea and China. So what better time to grow the sport,infront of a huge population where hockey isn't so popular.