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Is it safe to say that USA-Canada is now the biggest rivalry in international hockey?

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Is it safe to say that USA-Canada is now the biggest rivalry in international hockey?

  • Yes, it is firmly the biggest rivalry in international hockey

    Votes: 153 84.5%

  • No, it is still behind Canada-Russia and/or Sweden-Finland

    Votes: 28 15.5%
  • Total voters
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Dirtyf1ghter said:
1. Yeah 30% of NHL players of this generation will be Canadian

2. In 200 years Canada will probably not have existed for a long time. Countries are born and die. Canada did not exist 200 years ago. Open a history book to any period or region.
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Well in 200 years I'll be the first guy to tell you that you are right if that happens okay.
 
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The american took the rivalry after the cold war ended and we got russian players coming to the NHL. Russia imo has never been canada's "key rival" like the USSR was.
 
Dirtyf1ghter said:
As if I gave a damn between USA and Canada. As a Frenchman, I am neutral. I am for sports logic.

Objectively, USA will be better than Canada in the future. That's all.
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Is sports logic different than regular logic?

If I lose 10lbs in 10 days and i start at 250 lbs in 2500 days i will become nothing right?

That's the "logic" you are bringing here.
 
Dirtyf1ghter said:
As if I gave a damn between USA and Canada. As a Frenchman, I am neutral. I am for sports logic.

Objectively, USA will be better than Canada in the future. That's all.
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Ah France, only reason the country is good at soccer and basketball because of immigrants like mbabee and wemby. Without them, France's ever smaller native population would be an embarrasement on the world stage.
 
wetcoast said:
Is sports logic different than regular logic?

If I lose 10lbs in 10 days and i start at 250 lbs in 2500 days i will become nothing right?

That's the "logic" you are bringing here.
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The collapse in the percentage of Canadian players in the NHL, I'm not making it up.

And given that the USA, Russia, Czechia, Slovakia and minor nations are in an ascending sporting phase, the decline is expected to continue. And as at the same time hockey is increasingly competing with other sports (Soccer, Basketball, etc.) - I don't really see the dynamic changing.
 
GirardSpinorama said:
Ah France, only reason the country is good at soccer and basketball because of immigrants like mbabee and wemby. Without them, France's ever smaller native population would be an embarrasement on the world stage.
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France was already performing well in these sports before the Africanization of its youth.

Afterwards yes, natives have been in the minority in terms of births for several years and in the minority among those under 20 in metropolitan areas.

Alongside sport, the country is experiencing very strong political, social and economic crises with the almost certainty of terrifying decades to come.
 
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Don’t you have to win for it to be rivalry. The US hasn’t one at best on best tournament since 1996. Also, looking the world juniors is kind of dumb because Russia wasn’t even playing and they might have had the two best game breaking talents in the last 2 WJC. Damn when is the last time they won a world championship.
 
Maestro84 said:
Do you think it's fair to say that between 1950-2010, Canada-Russia was the biggest hockey rivalry but since 2010, it's now USA-Canada?

I think the 2010 Olympics where Canada beat Russia badly (never thought I'd see Russia get beat like that), and then the US played them in another gold medal match (the third since '96) and had beaten the Canadians in the group stages officially swung it in favour of US-Canada.
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Looking back through history, I think 1996 was when the US replaced Russia as having the biggest international rivalry with Canada.
 
Personally I don’t give US much thought. Russia is always the measuring stick for me. They have the pedigree and earned their stripes.
 
authentic said:
I don’t believe Russia is better than the states now. Hasn’t been for quite some time really.
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To me, the US is to Canada what Ottawa is to Toronto. Annoying little brother that nips at your heels, desperate to be relevant, wins against you in regular time (and goes on ad nauseum about it) but virtually never delivers against you when it matters. At some point in time you have to win when it matters against your opponent to be given any credence.
 
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Rants Mulliniks said:
To me, the US is to Canada what Ottawa is to Toronto. Annoying little brother that nips at your heels, desperate to be relevant, wins against you in regular time (and goes on ad nauseum about it) but virtually never delivers against you when it matters. At some point in time you have to win when it matters against your opponent to be given any credence.
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Fair enough lol

Rants Mulliniks said:
To me, the US is to Canada what Ottawa is to Toronto. Annoying little brother that nips at your heels, desperate to be relevant, wins against you in regular time (and goes on ad nauseum about it) but virtually never delivers against you when it matters. At some point in time you have to win when it matters against your opponent to be given any credence.
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Fair enough lol
 
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