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TORONTO -- The World Cup of Hockey is here to stay, that much the NHL and NHL Players Association have made fairly clear.Just what form it will have moving forward, however, remains very much up in the air.Team Canada head coach Mike Babcock didnt hold back when I asked him Tuesday morning what his feedback would be about the World Cup if the NHL and NHLPA asked him for it.Two cities, only night games, bring the pools together -- close, close together -- so you have crowds every night, not moving players around, began Babcock, and it was obvious he had been waiting for a while for someone to ask. Based on where you finish, what your world standing is thats how youre ranked in the tournament, thats how you pick dressing rooms, thats how you pick everything.Thats fair, actually. When you go to the Olympic Games, the swimmer in the heats who swims the fastest gets the best lane; thats how it should be. But this young guns [North America] team, or whatever it was [called], was spectacular. Next time is there going to be a?[Connor] McDavid?and an [Auston] Matthews?and those guys there? So you better be careful what you do with that.Team Europes done a great job, Babcock continued. Theyre right here in the final, [so its] pretty hard to knock it and yet I like country on country. I like the opportunity to represent your country where the heats on you and youve got to deliver. I think thats a huge part of the Olympic Games. The other thing is, the World Cups great. Its not the Olympics. Lets not get confused.OK, everyone got all that?First and foremost, if Babcock had his way theres no way the NHL and NHLPA would pull out of sending players to the 2018 South Korea Games. That decision needs to be made by the end of the year, and unless the IOC changes its tune on not wanting to pay for player contract insurance and travel costs -- as it has in the past -- NHL participation is definitely in peril.Also notable is that Babcock clearly feels that the next World Cup should be made up of teams representing their countries and not include the 23-and-under North American team or the team hes facing in the finals, Team Europe. I happen to agree with him. I think a traditional field is the way to go, with a European qualifying event the year before the next World Cup to determine the final few teams in the field. If the NHL doesnt go to South Korea, I think there will be even more onus on having an Olympic-like, traditional field for the next World Cup.NHL commissioner Gary Bettman said on Tuesday that no decisions had been made, either way, yet in terms of which teams would take part in the next World Cup.We havent evaluated [that] yet. When we debrief with the Players Association well focus on the format of future World Cups, Bettman told ESPN.com. (But) I dont think anybody can suggest that this tournament wasnt more exciting because of the Team Europe and Team North America concepts. Theres no doubt that those two teams were more competitive than the seventh and eighth countries would have been.Team Europe winger Nino Niederreiter, who is from Switzerland, was asked Tuesday morning about whether hed want to play for the Swiss in the next World Cup or come back as part of Team Europe.At the end of the day its a lot more emotional when you play for your own country, said Niederreiter. Here, you got put together a couple of weeks ago and youre eight nations in one place and for one team. At this point you dont really play for your country, you play for the teammates you have. So its a mixed feeling. Even being in the finals, its a different feeling than when you play for Switzerland in the final. Theres literally no pressure on us (Team Europe). All the pressure is on Canada.Dont get him wrong, Niederreiter says the whole Team Europe experience has been amazing. But when push comes to shove, playing for a solid hockey country like Switzerland and having that emotional attachment is preferable. After all, Switzerland did beat Canada at the Torino Olympics in 2006 and lost in a shootout to the Canadians at Vancouver 2010. So its reasonable for Switzerland to want to have its own entry in the World Cup. On the flip side, look at it from?Anze Kopitars perspective.Slovenia, Kopitars home country, will never have a chance to make a World Cup field. So for him, this is a unique opportunity with Team Europe and hes really enjoying the ride.I think everybody bought in really quick. I mean, Ive said it many times, everybodys really excited to be here and Id be lying if I said I was completely sold on this concept for sure. You dont know what youre getting into, said the?Los Angeles Kings?captain. It makes it so much easier if the guys buy in right away. We have a really good group of guys. It was a lot easier than I expected for everybody to kind of match up and create the chemistry thats brought us to this point. Adidas Nmd Herren Deutschland . The lawyers filed a 33-page amended complaint Tuesday in federal court in Manhattan, expanding on the suit originally filed Oct. 3 in New York Supreme Court. Arbitrator Fredric Horowitz last week refused to compel Selig to testify in the grievance, and Rodriguez then walked out of the hearing without testifying. Adidas Gazelle Damen Günstig . Shot outdoors against the stunning backdrop of Banff, Alta., the networks 30-minute original production airs tonight at 8pm et/5pm pt on TSN2. 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Katie Ledecky broke the 1,650-yard NCAA freestyle record by 20 seconds and her own American record by 10 seconds on Sunday, according to nbcsports.com.At an Ohio State meet, the Stanford freshman traveled 66 lengths of the pool in 15:03.92. The runner-up finished in 16:04.25 and still needed to complete four full lengths of the pool when Ledecky completed her swim.Ledeckys time was so good that it could have placed third in the mens 1,650-yard freestyle, which came right after her event in Columbus. She also broke another NCAA record in that event with her 1,000-yard split time, a time she had set in her third college meet in early November.Ledeckys record swims came one day after she took her first loss in a freestyle final longer than 100 meters since 2014, as she lost to fellow U..dddddddddddd.S. Olympic champion Simone Manuel in the 200-yard freestyle by .26 of a second, according to nbcsports.com.After winning four gold medals at the Rio Olympics, Ledecky has since smashed NCAA records in three freestyle events (500, 1,000 and 1,650 yards) in her first four meets as a member of the Stanford swim team.At Rio in August, no one was more dominant than the 19-year-old Ledecky, whose four golds included two world record-shattering performances.She became the first woman since 1968 to win the 200, 400 and 800 free and joined Amy Van Dyken and Missy Franklin as the only American women to capture as many as four golds in a single Games.? ' ' '