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- From: tarkkone@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Lauri Tarkkonen)
- Subject: Re: WJHC: Stats
- Message-ID: <1992Dec25.081730.21616@klaava.Helsinki.FI>
- Organization: University of Helsinki
- References: <9212242250.AA00341@booth.usask.ca> <1992Dec25.013022.18979@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU>
- Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1992 08:17:30 GMT
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- In <1992Dec25.013022.18979@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU> nlu@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Nelson Lu) writes:
-
- >In article <9212242250.AA00341@booth.usask.ca> glc39@booth.usask.ca (Glenn Chin) writes:
-
- >>Prior to, I believe, 1982, Canada sent a club team to the WJHC. Since
- >>then, we have sent all-star teams that consisted of most of our best under-20
- >>players. With the development of hockey in USA and Europe (outside ex-USSR), we
- >>can no longer play with under-20 players who are not yet ready for the NHL and
- >>expect to do very well.
- >>
- >>I think the gap in the cumulative standings since 1982 between USSR/CIS and
- >>Canada is narrower.
-
- >And so much for Gerald's argument that it's more important to have a team that
- >has played together than to have talent on the team, period.
-
- We could perhaps agree that a well practiced buch of stars would be ideal,
- but if we have to take stars without practice and no-stars without practice,
- let us have the stars. The holy hopes to get well practice teams to the major
- worls events will hardly come true in the free and market economy run world,
- where the hockey is based on operating clubs and their interest to survive
- is the main motivating thing. Some Canadians have been awfully worried about
- Canada's chanches to succeed, but I can promise you we Europeans have no
- better possibilities than you. Soon most of our best players are in NHL and
- it is much more difficult to even monitor them than it is for the Canadian
- and US team coaches.
-
- - Lauri Tarkkonen
-