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The World Cup of Hockey is set to kick off next September in Toronto, as the best players in the game will usher in a return of the competition that was abandoned after the 2004 tournament.

The Cup will see six nations compete (USA, Canada, Russia, Sweden, Finland, Czech Republic) as well as an ensemble cast of Team Europe, made up of the best remaining players from nations such as Latvia, Germany, Sloavkia, etc., and the final Young Guns team, which will see the best U23 North American talent come together.

Now that we have that settled…

…the National Hockey League is considering slapping advertisement patches on the jerseys of all eight teams, with sources placing the price tag for the ads as high as $8 million pucks (oops, bucks*) per advertisement.

The debate over placing advertisements on jerseys has been a hotly-debated debate that’s been debated like no other debate for years on end now. In a recent study conducted by the Bureau of Common Sense, 100% of hockey fans are opposed to ads being plastered on sweaters and spoiling the traditional nature of jerseys, yet more and more hints have been dropped that ads on hockey jerseys ( and in the other three major North American sports, for that matter) are a fait accompli, and it seems the NHL wants to get a feel for how to handle it at the 2016 World Cup of Hockey.

How do you feel about ads on jerseys, which would create a new lucrative stream of revenue for the league? (Do we even need to ask?)