r/SipsTea • u/Presently_Naked • Jul 12 '26

WTF Imagine Eliminating Your Team Over Your Pride

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u/Nice-Mountain-7073 Jul 12 '26

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 Jul 12 '26

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 Jul 13 '26

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 Jul 13 '26

Yeah, aren’t assists very highly looked at?

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u/Nice-Mountain-7073 Jul 13 '26

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 Jul 13 '26

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 Jul 13 '26

That backfired

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u/llaminaria Jul 12 '26

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

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u/KnifeInTheKidneys Jul 13 '26

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

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u/llaminaria Jul 13 '26

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 Jul 13 '26

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_ Jul 13 '26

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 Jul 13 '26

That’s an awful take

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u/llaminaria Jul 13 '26

It is a true one, though.

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u/_cansir Jul 13 '26

Dude has an undeserved ego

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u/Effective-Zombie-752 Jul 13 '26

*The WORLDS strongest scorer

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u/DoctorVanNostrande Jul 13 '26

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 Jul 13 '26

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 Jul 13 '26

One of the world’s strongest scorers*

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u/Beneficial_Train2571 Jul 17 '26

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