So how does Tom Renney look in place of Bob Nicholson now?

[Big Phil]

I'd say pretty good even before the tournament began. Cherry mentioned this on Coach's Corner tonight how much better we are with Renney. No politics, no games, no quotas in player selection, etc. There were some terrible cuts on our teams since 2009 and I think Nicholson was just in there for too long and got too comfortable with things. That's the model for selecting a team.

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[BobCole]

I honestly didn't know that Renney had taken over from Nicholson until hearing Don talk about it tonight.

I wonder whether there's truth to what Don was saying. Did Nicholson really have "quotas"? If so, what were his categories?

 

[habsrule4eva3089]

If Tom Renney even fathoms that his role and purpose shall be judged solely by how many Under 20 tournaments he wins, he should leave now. For that does not matter what so ever in the large spectrum of things.

Grow the game. Help kids play the game, because Hockey was never suppose to be meant to be played only by rich upper class people, which is the direction it's leaning towards.

Make Hockey accessible to everyone, whether they turn into Olympians or are the next generations beer leaguer's their all equally important. Our national game should be accessible to all children like Football is in Europe, that should be his first and main priority and thank goodness he's acting on it is so far.

In this day in age, there is too much cheap alternatives and Hockey is slowly dying in Canada in terms of parents choosing the sport for their children's first participation. Make them sway away from ''soccer'', tennis, baseball, what not. And finally glad to see programs across Canada are paying attention. We'll see how the situation improves as the years go by.

 

[BobCole]

If Tom Renney even fathoms that his role and purpose shall be judged solely by how many Under 20 tournaments he wins, he should leave now. For that does not matter what so ever in the large spectrum of things.

Grow the game. Help kids play the game, because Hockey was never suppose to be meant to be played only by rich upper class people, which is the direction it's leaning towards.

Make Hockey accessible to everyone, whether they turn into Olympians or are the next generations beer leaguer's their all equally important. Our national game should be accessible to all children like Football is in Europe, that should be his first and main priority and thank goodness he's acting on it is so far.

In this day in age, there is too much cheap alternatives and Hockey is slowly dying in Canada in terms of parents choosing the sport for their children's first participation. Make them sway away from ''soccer'', tennis, baseball, what not. And finally glad to see programs across Canada are paying attention. We'll see how the situation improves as the years go by.

Understand that he can only do so much from his post as the head of Hockey Canada. The biggest factor in growing the game is making ice time (relatively) affordable. In this sense, Canada historically has had a huge leg up over the rest of the world, and still does. I agree that the game is moving from a "middle class and up" sport to an "upper middle class and up" sport, which is discouraging. But I don't hold the head of Hockey Canada responsible for that.

And as an aside, to an extent we should be judging him on how well Canadian teams perform in int'l tournaments. You know how you attract people to the game? You build a successful infrastructure that produces exceptional athletes and the world's best hockey teams.

 

[saillias]

Like either guy had **** all to do with the junior teams winning gold. Hear him talk about his role, his job is to shake hands and kiss babies

 

[JackSlater]

Renney will be judged based on how well Hockey Canada does in boosting participation numbers, not how world junior teams that he has little influence on perform.