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Originally Posted by Rider
The NHL would go to shit if we kept out the Europeans and Canadians.
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Even though it's headquarters are in New York and there is more American teams, the NHL wouldn't be part of this hypothetical. It started off as a Canadian league, so we wouldn't include this league in the hypothetical.
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Originally Posted by CrazyKell
First of all, the NHL isn't YOUR league and many countries have their own leagues at stuff. Maybe not the same quality but neither would yours be if you didn't "allow" international flavour in there.
It's a business. They're paying for it. Lots of athletes train in Canada regardless of what country they're competing in. They're paying for that privelege.
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Wow, epic fail. It's a fucking hypothetical and I already said it was never going to happen.
Obviously we would lose a lot of athletes, but overall the in nation quality would rise to fill the void left and the international world wouldn't have access to our high dollar training facilities. Team sports make up very little of the medals, where it would really change some things is the individual sports. Tons of athletes train in our college system. If we focused on medals much more so than we do now, we could rise to meet the chinese.