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

[Dirtyf1ghter]

Still struggling to cope, love it.

I noticed you had a problem with reality

 

[Golden_Jet]

I noticed you had a problem with reality

Classic pot meet kettle

 

[Dirtyf1ghter]

Classic pot meet kettle

Now you don't know what to say anymore.

Not my fault if the % of Canadians in the NHL melts like snow in the sun

 

[I am not exposed]

Its been safe to say for decades.

 

[wetcoast]

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.

Well in 200 years I'll be the first guy to tell you that you are right if that happens okay.

 

[GirardSpinorama]

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.

 

[wetcoast]

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.

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]

Well in 200 years I'll be the first guy to tell you that you are right if that happens okay.

Many things will change well before 200 years. Specifically in demography.

 

[GirardSpinorama]

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.

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.

 

[Dirtyf1ghter]

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.

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.

 

[Dirtyf1ghter]

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.

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.

 

[Lauro]

I don't think sp, Canada - Russia will be Number One again when the war is over.

 

[SelltheTeamFrancesco]

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.

 

[End on a Hinote]

Did they win all the games against the Us? I believe we beat Canada 3-1 and pounded their faces in. You beat us in ot. So 1 win and 1 ot win. Us outscored them. So no they didn't dominate or win all games.

Pounded our faces in?

You guys literally lost 2/3 of the fights. Along with JT Miller punching himself in the face along the way.

 

[nucks88]

I think the Sweden/ Finland rivalry is the best right now…..longer and more intense…..

 

[Albatros]

Canada vs. USA is a better rivalry in women's hockey.

 

[LightningStorm]

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.

Looking back through history, I think 1996 was when the US replaced Russia as having the biggest international rivalry with Canada.

 

[Rants Mulliniks]

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]

Personally I don’t give US much thought. Russia is always the measuring stick for me. They have the pedigree and earned their stripes.

I don’t believe Russia is better than the states now. Hasn’t been for quite some time really.

 

[Rants Mulliniks]

I don’t believe Russia is better than the states now. Hasn’t been for quite some time really.

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.

 

[authentic]

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.

Fair enough lol

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.

Fair enough lol

 

[Maestro84]

I'm talking about the future. Demographics are changing very quickly. In a Canada where the population will be predominantly Chinese and Indian (and this will be the case in the coming decades) - many things will change. You have to look further than 2025. Imagine how the world has changed since 1925. Then 2125 - the world map will have changed dramatically.

Look at the Native American Nations. When Europeans became more numerous than them, it was the end of their society and it was the Europeans who imposed their laws.

Did you just find out that Canada is actually a very multicultural country? This isn't 1960 anymore where being Canadian only meant to be drinking tea in the afternoon, singing god save the queen, and going to the Protestant church on Sunday's

 

[Panthaz89]

Would Russia even beat Finland right now with their current NHL players? Sweden seems like the clear #3 rather than Russia. Strong wingers and goaltending can only get you so far.

 

[BB79]

The initial subject that led me to say this was Canadians' fear of being integrated into the USA.

It would make no difference to the lives of Canadians to remove the American border.

Jeez, he was just trolling Trudeau, nothing of such nature is really going to happen

 

[BraveCanadian]

With most other countries having dropped off since the 90s.. they are the last two left standing tbh.

The game isn't growing nearly as much as people like to pretend.