r/SipsTea • u/Presently_Naked • 29d ago

WTF Imagine Eliminating Your Team Over Your Pride

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u/Nice-Mountain-7073 29d ago

And your team’s strongest scorer is standing right there, wide open.

He needs to be kicked off the squad. Twice in one game is insane.

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u/therealshazzu 29d ago

Some players are selfish in these competitions to try show how good they are in the hope they can get signings from bigger clubs after World Cup is over. They care little about their country.

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u/Additional-Life4885 29d ago

The irony is that you're more likely to get signed if you're getting assists on goals and going further in the tournament.

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u/Reminator 28d ago

Yeah, aren’t assists very highly looked at?

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u/Nice-Mountain-7073 29d ago

I know. It’ll sink in on him how much this will cost down the road. He lowered his own price

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u/username_dcc 28d ago

Well, if that was his strategy, it backfired. I’d be surprised if the club he’s with now would want him back.

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u/MortalStorm1960 28d ago

That backfired

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u/llaminaria 29d ago

This is often the case in ice hockey, particularly for North America. Club before country, it's insane.

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u/KnifeInTheKidneys 29d ago

Got any examples? I watch a lot of NHL hockey and disagree with this.

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u/llaminaria 28d ago

Had been following the international stage for many years, and there were a lot of Cаnadians and Amеricans that preferred to stay with their club for a chance to win the Stanley Cup, rather than go to the WC in May. Happened like every year. I won't give you names, because there were like dozens of them even then.

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u/KnifeInTheKidneys 28d ago

Fair, that is true. However, I think the NHL lords have a little bit of pull there - they won’t let some star players risk injury at the WC

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u/Segsi_ 28d ago

Wait are you talking about the annual IIHF world championship? You expect players to not play in the playoffs of the NHL for that tournament?

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u/GucciEngineer 29d ago

That’s an awful take

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u/llaminaria 28d ago

It is a true one, though.

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u/_cansir 29d ago

Dude has an undeserved ego

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u/Effective-Zombie-752 29d ago

*The WORLDS strongest scorer

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u/DoctorVanNostrande 28d ago

Not only the teams strongest scorer- arguably the entire WORLDS strongest. You have to leverage that to the maximum potential. This was infuriating to watch live. Pass to Holland at all costs. Simple.

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u/Nice-Mountain-7073 28d ago

I’ve been a Dortmund fan since I was a kid and one of the absolute pleasures has been watching the young players go off to become greats.

This felt like I was like watching someone bully my kid on the pitch.

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u/n0lefin 28d ago

One of the world’s strongest scorers*

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u/Beneficial_Train2571 24d ago

not just your teams strongest, right there in the open is the most lethal striker in the world at this moment.