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 CrusaderPi
Messages: 8140
Registered: December 2003
Location: Downtown Edmonton
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I think it's time for Hockey Canada to come to god again and do a refocus. They did it in the 90s after the World Cup or maybe Nagano and it set us on the right path for success. The entire elite / youth / junior system is in chaos right now and we're seeing the results. Things that need to be addressed (in my opinion):
Major junior teams can't compete unless they take massive cupboard emptying swings
Major junior, at the stock of a pen in America, became a feeder system for the NCAA
The BCHL left Hockey Canada because a better path to the NCAA was needed
Junior A is essentially pointless now
The academy system is now limiting growth potential in hockey in the early teen year (I blame this most of all for the problems we're seeing at the world junior tournament)
I think the solution is a european soccer style tiering of junior hockey and making a premier league for the memorial cup, Turn U18 into U17, and maybe making the bottom tiers of u21 into u20. I have no idea what can be done about the academy system, but it sure seems to me like these elite teams are all playing the same kind of hockey now.
Please do not feed the bears. Feeding the bears creates a dependent population unable to survive on their own. Bears.
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