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Guest wrote: ↑Tue Dec 31, 2024 10:58 pm Hockey Canada needs to be scrapped. Complete failure at all levels. USA is the new king.

Guest wrote: ↑Thu Jan 02, 2025 10:42 am

Guest wrote: ↑Tue Dec 31, 2024 10:58 pm Hockey Canada needs to be scrapped. Complete failure at all levels. USA is the new king.

I've been saying this for years. Hockey USA numbers are increasing, hockey enrollment in Canada, decreasing. It's panic mode, how can you tell - open boarders for OHF. Check their financial reports. The money is leaking.

Guest wrote: ↑Fri Jan 03, 2025 7:21 am Scott woak man and hockey Canada have driven the sport into the ground.

Guest wrote: ↑Mon Dec 30, 2024 4:29 pm

Guest wrote: ↑Mon Dec 30, 2024 1:20 pm Same parents on here shocked at the loss probably fought tooth and nail against HC implementing half ice hockey a few years ago for younger kids. In European countries and the US they play modified ice until after U12 or later. Many countries introduce contact BEFORE they move to full ice. Kids touch the puck way more, move in smaller areas, learn the contact game, and goalies get way more shots. Watch a u11 G game from a development standpoint, it’s a joke. Half the kids might touch the puck 3x in a whole game and the goalies stand there for an hour making a few saves. Paid coaches and parents screaming, benches shortened to win a game for standings that mean nothing. Sure kids love to win but they’ll keep score on the shinny rink and in a game whether they have the fancy bags and jerseys and scoreboards or not. There is no such thing as an elite hockey player under the age of 15 but our system funnels children way too early to determine who the truly talented ones are. Kids going to specialty schools and playing AAA at the age of 8… it’s a joke fuelled by an entire economy of paid coaches and parent dreams. We have it all wrong.

Some solid points even though I don’t agree with everything. Yes, assuming a kid is elite before 14-15 is ridiculous. Kids develop at a different pace. Some kids more advanced now will continue while many will be at the level as the majority by 15. Once kids are teens the parents have very little say and the kids progression will fully be driven by self drive. Another joke is all the emphasis on the Brick. Parents think if you are in the Brick you are going far while others who are not think their kid has no talent.

Guest wrote: ↑Thu Jan 02, 2025 11:03 pm Hockey Canada is pathetic. This team was pathetic. The coach was pathetic.

What a total embarrassment!

Politics and $$$ have ruined hockey in Canada.