World Cup being misrepresented as 'best-on-best' tournament

NHL deputy commissioner Bill Daly, right, and Toronto Mayor John Tory take a selfie during the unveiling of the tournament countdown clock for the World Cup of Hockey outside the Air Canada Centre in Toronto on March 2, 2016. (Veronica Henri/Toronto Sun/Postmedia Network)TORONTO — A klatch of worthies gathered in front of the Air Canada Centre on Wednesday afternoon to unveil a clock.

When Darryl Sittler and Toronto Mayor John Tory pulled the black curtain aside to reveal the official countdown clock for next year's World Cup of Hockey, the screen was, for a few minutes at least, blank.

This made the clock only slightly less unnecessary. Which made it a perfectly appropriate thing to unveil…