The US lost in overtime to an absolutely stacked Canada team. And they won the first game. Arguably outplayed Canada overall in the game as well. I don't think the discrepancy in coaching is all that significant.
More American live in winter conducive climate than Canadians do.
Yes and IMO it is a great idea.Covering the rink protects from heavy snow and ponctuel little winter rain. I am jealous, when I was a kid, that could stop us playing for some time. Lucky them
Gnarly. Americans still have a higher number to pull from.
I'm not sure on this one, but didn't find the right information.
I just did a quick search. Minnesota, Michigan, Mass, Illinois and Ohio add up to more than Canada.
Just New York State, Pennsylvania and Illinois alone surpass Canada’s population. They have a lot, a lot more population who live in winter conditions than do Canada.
And how many national team members did those states produce? Like two? Miller, Fox, not sure if missing anyone else. I think it shows there’s a good bit of untapped potential.
No, your original posts point about if Houston had Toronto weather was to suggest Houston would produce better athletes than Toronto just because, right?
The town I grew up in in the early 60s had a prep school outdoor rink (no roof) and flooded the tennis courts. When Orr came, the town built its own rink and the prep school covered its rink and it still flooded the courts. Now with global warming the
I’m not the idiot who brought up population numbers living in winter weather. Just pointed out the flaw in the simple minded argument.
No, my point was that if the entire United States could be skating in the winter, we'd have a much larger pool to pull from, which would increase the chances of spiking elite players more often. And we'd definitely produce higher numbers across the board.
Yeah but very few American athletes have rinks remotely close to where they live and by far play baseball, football and basketball and have never ever played hockey.
Winter here are way more cold than in Boston and to prevent climate change they started refrigerating
Lets concentrate on the 3M's ok? Total population of about 20 million from them with the best hockey cultures by far. For years Massachusetts until recently outstripped much more heavily populated NY by significant amounts. Only during the Orr boom did Massachusetts\New England hockey culture become probably 75% at best of Canada. It produced along with Michigan the guts of the 1996 World Cup champions.
Once again, I’m not the one who brought up the ridiculous argument of population in cold weather as if it were some trump card.
First point would be to define what is winter condition!
That the U.S.'s BEST team in 30 years will be kinda old by 2030, while Canada's NEXT generation (still kids) looks OFF THE CHARTS.
