Let the games begin!
On Saturday, September 17, eight teams will gather in Toronto to kick off the 2016 edition of the World Cup of Hockey.
Despite plenty of skepticism from fans and media going into the tournament, the pretournament games started off with a bang and entertained throughout. But pretournament games may not be good indicators of what to expect when the games count for real. They're more about testing combinations and looking at players than they are about winning and losing.
The four European teams also endured brutal travel and a seven-hour time change when they made their way over to North American for their final tuneup games, so plenty of variables are still in play.
In a short tournament that features just three games of round-robin play, absolutely anything can happen once the round-robin schedule kicks off. Here are a few things to expect over the next two weeks from the World Cup of Hockey.
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