For all you people out there, thinking that the World Hockey Championship tournament is mostly just a waste of time, because the best players aren't going to the be there anyway and because there are only seven big hockey nations in the world, let me tell you this: for a hockey lover, there's no better place to be than the World Championships.

In Canada.

This year's tournament has been especially fun thanks to a couple of upsets, and the solid play of countries like Belarus, Denmark, Norway, and Germany.

From the box de presse up here in Quebec City, it looks like the hockey world is expanding, instead of imploding, and that the the gap between the...

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