Our point was that you fundamentally don't understand the two systems you are comparing are not the same. You cannot compare them in the way you are. At any age level of AAA. Best on best international tourneys is the one real chance you can do some comparison.
You CAN compare them up to 14U. They have a rating, they play each other, and they both do not go to Juniors at that age, and at that age we are on par and even better sometimes. All at the same time while pulling only from 100 teams and not 200 like Canada.
Please don't tell me I don't understand the two systems without laying down the facts. Tell me exactly what I do not understand, because I simply looked up youth hockey stats. There is almost zero opinion in what I said. It's pretty clear we do something good until 14U and then we screw up later on at Junior development. I have a feeling it has to do of youth players not being able to PLAY UP to better teams.
Now, for those who said it has to do with NTDP, I never in my post ever mentioned those teams. I never compared them, I never talked about them. They don't play Canadian Youth teams, etc. I only compared Youth hockey across the countries. It wasn't anything smart. I simply went and looked at stats year by year: numbers of teams, ratings, scores.
@ORRFForever Yes, they draft more Canadians, because USA development ends at 16 relative to Canadian. Canadian kids PLAY UP at better competition and develop better, hence the difference from 14U all the way to the draft. In other words, US Hockey has a completely wrong development approach to players. It works up to 14U, because it's not up to US Hockey, but individual clubs and coaches, but once that ends, players stop developing at optimal rate due to lack of Junior hockey program.