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Basically. It's a world cup and it should be countries. Have qualifying criteria and select a 7th and 8th country. If they are a notch below the first six - so be it. Most of the countries in the World Cup of soccer have no chance to win it all. That's just the way it is.

The Olympic tournament has shown that countries like Switzerland and Slovakia can put up a respectable fight. Belarus, Germany, Slovenia - whatever.

Novelty squads - not my thing. Might be fun to see McDavid on a line with Johnny Hockey and Jack Eichel - I'll make the best of it - but it's not my bag.

Hopefully they will have pros back at the 2018 winter games in South Korea. That is a better tournament for the reasons I said - and also just because it is the Olympics. That gives it extra gravitas right away.

That is up in the air at the moment.
 
So here it is. Here's who you gotta get through if you want world hockey supremacy.

* = the guise that were just added to finalize the roster.



TEAM CANADA


Forwards: Jamie Benn, Patrice Bergeron, Jeff Carter, Sidney Crosby, Matt Duchene*, Ryan Getzlaf, Claude Giroux*, Brad Marchand*, Tyler Seguin, Steven Stamkos, John Tavares, Joe Thornton*, Jonathan Toews

Defense: Brent Burns*, Drew Doughty, Duncan Keith, Jake Muzzin*, Alex Pietrangelo*, Marc-Edouard Vlasic, Shea Weber

Goalies: Corey Crawford, Braden Holtby, Carey Price
 
Jeff Carter has a very hot wife. I was talking to a guy the other day who told me before he was married this lady he knows went on a date with him and Carter expected the pussay so she didn't see him again.

Did you think you were going on a date with Jeff fucking Carter and not fucking?

I mean gawd.
 
World Cup 2016 is approaching fast. Damn.

Czech goalie Petr Mrazek has unveiled a new mask for it which I find to be pretty kick-ass. It portrays Peter Griffin in a monkey suit climbing the CN Tower (a la King Kong) with a Czech flag he intends to plant at the top.

I dig the spirit and creativity. :up:




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Just a couple weeks till this starts. I was hearing a fair bit of chatter this past week and the main subject: the Under-23 North American team.

When the format of the tourney was announced, the reaction was near unanimous: it's stupid to have these novelty teams, meaning the U23 team and also the rest-of-Europe team.

If you're going to call it a World Cup. Just have countries. If the 7th and 8th teams don't have a realistic chance, well, welcome to reality. All World Cups are like that.

But the overwhelming theme of chatter this week: people are interested in watching that U23 team more than anything else. They kinda sucked me in too. I would still, if I was in charge, just have countries - but it is an intriguing team. Holy shit those guise are going to be flying out there.
 
The CN Tower was the world's tallest freestanding structure for the first, I dunno, 30 years (??) of its existence.

It has been topped in recent years though and is now 3rd or 4th. There is the Burj Tower (United Arab Emirates ??) and something called Petronas in Kuala Lumpur I think - and their may be something in Beijing too.

Point being, you wouldn't want it to tip over and land on you.
 
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