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"It's not as good as the Chinese men's football team!"
In its first Winter Olympic game, the Chinese men's ice hockey team with 15 naturalized players unsurprisingly lost 0:8 to the world's fourth-ranked United States team, some fans were very discouraged and said that the performance of men's ice was not as good as that of the Chinese men's football team.
For the Chinese men's ice hockey team ranked 32nd in the world, this Beijing Winter Olympics is the first time in the history of the team to qualify for the Winter Olympics, and it is conceivable that if it were not for the identity of the host, the dream of male ice to participate in the Winter Olympics would even be more difficult than that of the men's football team to enter the World Cup.
Ice hockey as a sport that is not popular in the mainland, some people have joked that the so-called men's ice hockey national team is actually the Qiqihar City team, from this statement, it can be seen that the popularity of ice hockey in the mainland is indeed very low.
In order to prepare for the Winter Olympics held on the mainland, and in order to make it not too ugly to lose in the Winter Olympic Games, in fact, the Chinese men's ice hockey team began to prepare early, and naturalized as many as 11 American and Canadian players of Chinese descent, as well as 4 naturalized players without blood, and went to Russia to participate in the KHL (Mainland Ice Hockey League) in the name of "Beijing Kunlun Hongxing Vanke Dragon Team" to train in the game.
For the members of the Chinese men's ice hockey team, I believe most netizens have not heard of it, except for the famous director and actor Yingda's son Yingrudi, who relies on the fame of his father Yingda to be slightly known, in addition, most people know nothing about this team that shoulders the mission of creating history.
Until a few months before the start of the Beijing Winter Olympics, the newly appointed president of the International Ice Hockey Federation, Luc Tardiv, was still publicly questioning the strength of the Chinese men's ice hockey team and kindly persuading the Chinese team to retreat from the difficulties and voluntarily withdraw from the Winter Olympics, replaced by Norway, which ranked 11th in the world.
In Tardiv's view, if the Chinese men's ice hockey team that appeared in the Beijing Winter Olympic Games loses to the opponent by a score of 0-15, it will be extremely unfavorable to the popularity of ice hockey in China and the development of world hockey. However, in the face of this goodwill of the International Ice Federation, the Chinese men's ice hockey team did not accept it, but resolutely decided to participate, leaving its own figure for the first time in the history of the Winter Olympics.
In fact, the situation of surprise naturalized foreign players like the Chinese team forming a team to participate in the Winter Olympics is not without precedent. In the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics in South Korea, the host South Korea also surprised and naturalized a large number of American and Canadian players to participate in the Winter Olympics, but it was still to no avail, and all three group games ended in defeat, saying goodbye to the Winter Olympic Games in a gray and slippery way.
For the encounter of neighboring South Korea, in fact, the Chinese men's ice hockey team also knows the significance, in addition to the significance of taking advantage of the host's opportunity to participate in all the events of the Winter Olympics, to avoid the embarrassing appearance of the big score rout predicted in advance by the president of the International Ice Hockey Federation is the bottom line of the Chinese men's ice hockey team.
To be fair, facing the United States team without NHL (North American Hockey Professional League) players, in the first quarter of the game, the Chinese men's ice hockey team performed normally, only 0:1 temporarily behind, the second quarter of the United States extended the lead to 4 goals, the third quarter of the physical decline of the Chinese men's ice hockey team can not resist the attack of the United States, and finally ended the first game at the Winter Olympics 0:8.
As netizens said, if the United States sends NHL (North American Hockey Professional League) players this time, I am afraid that the Chinese men's ice hockey team will really have to lose 0:15, and the strongest American team will pass, just like college students playing kindergarten children.
This sound harsh, but it is by no means unreasonable, so that after the game, many netizens sighed that they knew this result earlier, and it was better to listen to people to directly withdraw from the game, and also avoided the embarrassment of losing the big score.
Some netizens said that such a big score loss, but also popular what kind of ice hockey? Such strength and performance are even worse than the Chinese men's football team that has been scolded to the point of being unable to lift its head.
In fact, the Chinese men's ice hockey team's opponent in the first game of the United States (No. 6 seed) is not the strongest opponent in Group A, and then the Chinese team will play against the No. 1 seed Canada and the No. 7 seed Germany team that have won 9 winter olympic ice hockey gold medals.
As the old saying goes, it is a mule that is led out by a horse, and for the Chinese men's ice hockey team, in the face of a once-in-a-lifetime home opportunity, it naturally does not want to give up easily, even if it is unsurprisingly three consecutive losses, at least it shows that we have been here and have stood on the field of the Winter Olympics.