MvsW: McDavid Wants International Hockey

The Jeff Marek Show

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4.4 • 887 Ratings

🗓️ 23 March 2023

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Jeff and Greg look back on Connor McDavid’s comments about the need for best-on-best international hockey, the positive spotlight an event like that would shine on the NHL, and if you can have a World Cup of Hockey without Russia. Next, they discus at the idea of only having NHLers play in the tournament and the logistics on the idea, before brainstorming a “Ryder Cup” style event or only pitting two countries against each other. To wrap, Jeff and Greg chat about the amount of elite athletes in the United States becoming hockey players. The views and opinions expressed in this podcast are those of the hosts and guests and do not necessarily reflect the position of Rogers Sports & Media or any affiliates.

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0:00.0	This is the Jeff Merrick Show on the Sports Net Radio Network.
0:08.0	I thought it was really cool. It's what we've been asking for in hockey for a long time right you know is best on best and you
0:16.7	know look everyone's talking about baseball and you know did you see you know
0:19.4	Otani versus trout and you know that's what hockey's been missing for you know almost a decade now so
0:25.7	yeah that's what we've been asking for.
0:30.5	Keeping the NHL and the Players Association's feet to the fire for international hockey, that is Connor McDavid.
0:37.0	Pleased to be joined weekly here by Greg Worsinski from ESPANM, VSTW time once again.
0:41.6	Hello Wish. Boy, is he bitter that he didn't get to play for Canada?
0:46.8	That he had to be T&A in the World Cup of Hockey that we all adored?
0:51.1	Is he bitter about that? we all
0:55.0	a door. Is he bitter about that? Team North America, like honestly, I was thinking about this a while ago.
1:00.0	All those guys one day are all going to be able to say we played on one of the best cult teams of all time
1:06.6	With the coolest swag and played as a brand of hockey that really we're seeing now more so than ever in the
1:13.9	NHL they're playing that at the World Cup of Hockey. I remember asking
1:16.4	Cooper about, John Cooper about it once, about you know, what's the best team
1:21.7	he ever coached and he said the best team I
1:23.9	I was ever part of was a team that didn't do anything and that was team North
1:27.3	America now they didn't win anything in the World Cup of Hockey but in a lot of
1:31.6	ways they pointed at the future and I think we're going to
1:34.0	look back 20 years from now at that team and we're just going to play the Count the Hall of Famer's
1:38.9	game like how many guys from that team wish are going to end up in the Hockey Hall of Fame?
1:44.5	Many. I was happy to hear Carter's comments though about the World Cup and about
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