It is superior, but not in a way you can glean strictly from a match between them and an EIHL side.Nathan wrote: ↑Sat Nov 20, 2021 12:42 pmI think it was more to do with the nature of the tournament and quality of the team. Everyone (not everyone) seems to think the Danish league is far superior to the EIHL. It isn't. It's ok.
Had that been a SHL team it would have been a demolition job.
'European Hockey' is usually quite open and quick, league depending, but that last night was very cagey.
Their league ices far fewer imports (Aalborg has 6), their best talent move on to break into the KHL/SHL/NHL, their national side has been in the top tier of the WC for quite some time, on top of now making the Olympics.
Compare and contrast how we do in these departments, and you see where that perception (rightly) comes from. In short, they produce far more and better players, that feeds both their own league, with enough to have some player break into higher levels abroad. Even it up on the import numbers, and I'd expect the result to be quite different.
