World Cup is back.

[The Bytown Boozer]

THE 2020 HONDA MOTORS WORLD CUP OF HOCKEY

Group A (Ottawa)
Canada
USA
Germany
France

Group B (Stockholm)
Sweden
Finland
Denmark
Norway

Group C (Prague)
Czech Republic
Slovakia
Switzerland
Austria

Group D (Moscow)
Russia
Belarus
Latvia
Slovenia

Top 8 Nations advance to best-of-3 elimination round in New York/New Jersey.

[Shawnathan Horcoff]

in every Honda Accord...there's a Honda engine

Shea Weber +3

[chicpea]

Who the heck is in charge of the music at the World Cup? The intros onto the ice just suck the air out of me.

[mayoradamwest]

Allan Walsh, for some reason.

[Germz]

This game is boring as shit. Fuck Hedman and Stralman for giving us this final.

[mayoradamwest]

Double play! Jays win!

[chicpea]

That was some garbage hockey. Disgraceful.

[mayoradamwest]

Headline article on ten.ca is about Jacob Trouba....

[mayoradamwest]

Same with tsn...

[Germz]

That was some garbage hockey. Disgraceful.

The stakes are too low. It feels like an all-star game.

[mayoradamwest]

It's too bad the usa decided to go the knuckle dragging route as they can play some good hockey, though I guess if you take away eichel and Matthews and give em Tortorella they don't really have the team to overcome...

I dunno, there's just no interest in this for me.

I miss team Latvia.

[chicpea]

That was some garbage hockey. Disgraceful.

The stakes are too low. It feels like an all-star game.

Yes. I concur. We need some viscous hits to get people into this.

[chicpea]

Good example: Couture could've absolutely just destroyed Hossa on that turnover by Weber but didn't even make contact.

[chicpea]

But I don't want anyone getting hurt of course. Not over such a stupid trophy. And why were the Mounties trotting it out? It's not the Canada Cup, for Pete's sakes.

[chicpea]

Doughty breaking up a ...... Three on One and then with a huge hit. More like it.

[Balki Bartokomous]

Well, we in the media biz are all looking forward to this ending Thursday. Kudos to team Europe for playing us the toughest. How is Ralph Krueger still not the coach of the Oilers? I don't know.

[Dr_Chimera]

Brett Hull looks like if Alec Baldwin fucked Kirk Douglas.

Underrated tweet, IMHOMO.

[mayoradamwest]

I tried to give you rep, but... Well, The Liberals are in power...

[senate]

I tried to give you rep, but... Well, The Liberals are in power...

Hockeybroads' rep system uses Phoenix?

[Balki Bartokomous]

I hope this ends tonight. The wrong gimmick team made it to the final.

[The Bytown Boozer]

After all this, I think the NHL should capitalize on the marketability of its young stars and give the public what it wants. Make the next All-Star game be a North America vs Europe Young Gun Rendez-vous. The winner of this game determines on which continent (and thus, on which ice dimensions) the next World Cup is to be held.

Other things the NHL should do include:

• Take the gimmick teams out of the World Cup. 8 teams would be fine, but expanding it would generate more international legitimacy.
• Go to the Olympics every 4 year to remind people that hockey still exists.
• Hold a new type of Canada Cup on odd numbered years where the country itself is divided into teams. Put that shit on CBC and make money.
• Maybe do do a United States tournament too? Air it on NBC's Goat Shaving Network? Make money?
• If the NHL is going to have 4 or 5 outdoor games a year, why not have them all on the same day? Hell make every team play outdoors, one select day a year.
• Get teams in Quebec & Seattle. Portland & Milwaukee are also both decent markets if you're into that type of thing.

[The Bytown Boozer]

• Bring back rep

[Germz]

[*]Go to the Olympics every 4 year to remind people that hockey still exists.

So important. Nobody in the States knows that this tournament is even happening unless they are already rabid hockey fans. But during the Olympics, people are already paying attention and that's half the battle. If Bettman and co. pull out of Pyeongchang and seriously think that a World Cup tournament by itself is going to cut it, they have got another thing coming.

[Honus Joglund]

Should have gotten that obese French women to sing O Canada instead of these faggoty fucks.

[The Bytown Boozer]

[Dr_Chimera]

a) I am not watching

b) If Europe this game 2, it's definitely fixed

[PPJ]

GO EUROPE!

[The Bytown Boozer]

Holy fucking shit fellas!!

[The Bytown Boozer]

[PPJ]

Fuck that faggot. Price is Canada's MVP.

[Honus Joglund]

THE BEST

[PPJ]

I expect Subban to show at any moment for the phone op.

[Honus Joglund]

More good times with Sid n' the Gang

[Honus Joglund]

[PPJ]

[The Bytown Boozer]

:mike_liut:

[Boring Choice #2]

so was this whole brad marchand thing like the john scott all-star mvp treatment... an opportunity to give a mentally handicapped player a chance to feel like a star?

[PredsFan77]

Proud to say I watched only one game and it was preseason. Bags on you gary

[Boring Choice #2]

weren't they all preseason?

[MP]

Can we lock this thread up now? Thx.

[Balki Bartokomous]

Just have a Canada v.s The World best of seven series.

Team World

Gaudreau-Malkin-Tarasenko
Ovechkin-Backstrom-Kane
Sedin-Sedin-Kucherov
Palat-Kopitar-Landeskog

Hedman-Karlsson
Josi-Byfuglien
Ristolainen-Shattenkirk

Schneider
Bobrovsky
Lundqvist

[PPJ]

CANADA OWNS THE GAME!

At least that's what sports net told me was on the line.

[Boring Choice #2]

Can we lock this thread up now? Thx.

can? absolutely.

[Balki Bartokomous]

CANADA OWNS THE GAME!

At least that's what sports net told me was on the line.

Hockey invented Canada

[The Bytown Boozer]

[PPJ]

When is the Blu Ray going to be released?