cska78
Registered User
You keep averting to some propaganda and such, it sounds like a broken record. Nobody in hockey (or soccer) world I speak to, telegram or not shares your opinion except for preschool kids. What you say is pretty laughable."Party's line" right now applies perfectly to the US. It sounds laughable for Russia. Nothing is done in hockey according to "party's line". Stop reading idiotic american propaganda about "Putin's team". And to say Bragin did anything on those grounds is even more ridiculous.
And yeah, those former CHLers are just garbage by now. Why? Did they get so upset over not being invited by Bragin that their whole careers went to waste? Or maybe Bragin knows who to pick and who leeave out.
WJC is not a win tournament. That's what you get wrong too. It is a junior tournament. It is giving some guys who have their last chance some exposure and opportunity over bringing in useless underagers. The ones not useless Bragin ALWAYS had on his teams. The guys who Bragin "inexplicably" left out tend to become busts so often, that I completely trust Bragin's judgement with juniors. The canadian obsession with the WJC tournament clouds a lot of people's judgement. It's no olympic medal. It is still a place of development and growth and the final battle best on best. I don't need Russia to win WJCs left and right. I want consistent high results(that's what Bragin has always delivered) and most importantly every year, on ervery team 2-4 guys who will play on the senior NT soon. If they have no supporting cast and not win I am perfectly fine with that.
I have respect for Bragin as a junior motivator, but he isn't quite a man you make out him to be as far as freedom of decisions.
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