NHL teams benefit when their players have success elsewhere — even at the Olympics, despite the league’s lack of ability to grasp that. Small tangent aside, the Dallas Stars will be a better team because of the success of players competing for their home countries at Worlds and playing for the AHL affiliate Texas Stars.
And it’s not just for the obvious reasons.
Culture of Winning
Being a good winner isn’t something that’s easy to teach. Players don’t know intuitively how to win or how to maintain a level of sportsmanship when winning. The culture of winning follows the same track.