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Bring Back The Amateurs
by Paul on 02/16/10 at 09:13 AM ET
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from John Keating of FoxSports Detroit,
Vancouver is the fourth Olympiad that has held a hockey tournament of NHL players. It should be the last.
What are we proving here? This is a league that has determined that the only fair, or really possible way, to determine a championship is to play a seven-game series and that each of those games will go to overtime, if needed.
Yet, what we have here is “The Hot Goalie Open.” A one-and-done collection of All-Star Games. For the right to determine the best on the planet, we allot the teams a grand total of one practice together and then it’s game-on.
The Miracle on Ice team of Herb Brooks was a once in a lifetime fluke. But they played together for seven months. Their opponents were likely together for longer than that. But how novel that a team competition was actually played by, ya know, teams.
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