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09-22-2024, 09:10 AM (This post was last modified: 09-22-2024, 11:44 AM by tomtommen. Edited 1 time in total.)

12. Written, 50 to 200+ words. Is It Always The Same?
IIHF is short tournaments with only 12 round robin games for each team, which leads to huge swings from season to season when it comes to standings. Same is true for the WJC as well. With that in mind what do you think will be different from last season? Do you expect things to change for your team or player? And what you expect to stay the same?

Huge Swings is what makes the IIHF tournament really exciting. Every game counts. Every dropped puck matters. It is not like you can rest in 40 games a season because you are the best and just need to be best in the playoffs.And it isn’t the same teams meeting in the same rounds every year. I know that many like the idea of creating rivalry by making them face each other several years in a row, but I do like that there is a variance in which team meets which team. If your team is good enough they will face each other in the finals anyway. Creating a bigger rivalry than this mere bottom scraping team facing each other every year in the first round of the playoffs. Last year bla bla bla won. I doubt they will this season, but hey. Who really cares? The entire tournament is being played in Saint Petersburg and should have been dropped by everybody. The entire tournament is just a disgrace and should be cancelled. But that is just my five cents. I wish I had read this information earlier so I could have retired or asked my team to drop me from the tournament. Not gonna watch it and not gonna pay any attention to it. It will be as forgotten as if it had not been played. Not sure if it was this season, the former or next. I will pay more attention when I know it isn't played in Russia.

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13. Written, 50 to 200+ words. Out With The Old, In With The New
Team Russia got replaced by Quebec, which for sure got people talking about the IIHF. What other nations/regions would you like to see get their own team? Would you think they should replace current teams and if so which ones would you seek to replace? And most importantly, why you think that teams you picked would be more interesting or improve the IIHF in general?

If Quebec got their own team in the IIHFs it would be a mistake in my opinion, but I do not have anything to say except complain in my assignments. I do agree to removing Russia. They should have been removed several years ago, but they were kept around for some weird reason. Why do I not want Quebec to be a part of IIHF? Because they are not a country. Should we add California or the street of hobos from Philadelphia? An international tournament should consist of international teams. As long as Quebec is a part of Canada they should not participate in an international competition. If Norway were to be dropped for the sake of another country I would refuse to play for the new country I would be assigned to. Can you not play in the IIHFs? I hope that will be an option in the future. Oh well. Now I am just rambling to get to two hundred words. But I am actually disappointed. When asking what countries you want in the IIHFs and then seeing Quebec being mentioned as a part of it makes everything go meeeeeeh. How boring.. It would’ve been much more interesting with a country and from another part of the world.

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