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TBF, I didn’t say it was a bad thing to have NHL players, just that there is a downside. The upside of the matchups in the quarterfinals and beyond far outweighs the downside.
These Men’s Hockey playoff games are kind of showing the downside of having NHL players at the Olympics: the countries without very many (or any) NHL players are having trouble competing. And even the ones who have more than a few, like Germany, are having to play their stars a fuckton.
On initial reaction, seeing that 52 skiers DNF’d in the Men’s Slalom is quite shocking. Upon a little bit of research, that’s actually quite normal for the slalom. 2018 had 63 DNF’s for example.
Of note, because of back to back games, plenty of the mid-tier teams kind of “threw” their games against the US and Canada by starting their backups against them. Germany didn’t start Grubauer against the US, the Swiss didn’t start Genoni against Canada, and the Danes didn’t start Freddy...
Reddit and r/hockey is always an entertaining read.
Edit: For example the pretty consistent assertion by Canadians that the US men are trash because they aren't scoring like Canada (against a pretty mediocre Czechia, a down Swiss and France) and the US women are overrated and will fold to...
Forum is now almost completely unusable for me on mobile. At least 90% of the time I click into anything, Cafe, Thread, whatever, the forum is immediately replaced with an unclosable full page ad. Click "back" and try again? Same thing happens.
And I use mobile more often.
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