Cherry rips Hockey Canada after world junior disaster

Love him or hate him if what he says is true, he has a point. Every other country sends their best players but in politically correct Canada apparently we send a proportional representation of our supposedly best players.

What's next. Everybody gets to go to the World Jr's Championships because we don't want to hurt anyones feelings.

It's bothersome that in the past kids have been cut who were obviously better players than some who made the team but, because they didn't fit the mould of what Team Canada wanted they didn't make it.

It's now apparent what Hockey Canada wanted and that's proportional representation based on Major Junior hockey playing population which may be a nice philosophy if you're running a daycare but doesn't work worth shite for picking a winning hockey team.

I'm surprised they don't have a retard and a paraplegic on the team to really show 'diversity'.

I suppose it all depends on what the outcome is supposed to be. If it's about 'winning' then they suck. If it's about character building, then I say it's a win.

And, our second best players did come in fourth overall in the world.

I suppose it all depends on what the outcome is supposed to be. If it's about 'winning' then they suck. If it's about character building, then I say it's a win.

And, our second best players did come in fourth overall in the world.

Too bad these tournaments don't hand out awards for character building.

Is this what we can expect from our Olympic teams for the same reasons?

I suppose it all depends on what the outcome is supposed to be. If it's about 'winning' then they suck. If it's about character building, then I say it's a win.

And, our second best players did come in fourth overall in the world.


Sorry Doc that's not good enough.

Canada has put it's reputation into hockey, no country is as identified with the sport as we are.

Let me break it down for you.


Canada has 30 million people. Just by numbers, we should be better than:

Slovakia 5 million
Czech 10 million
Finland 5 million
Sweden 9 million
Switzerland 8 million

Additionally, those countries are not "hockey countries", because soccer occupies at least 50% of their sports world.

So at least half their kids do something else besides hockey on a serious level.
Again, usually soccer.

Bigger countries:

France 60 million
Italy 60 million
Spain 40 million
Germany 80 million

No issues here, soccer is so dominant, hockey is a fringe sport here at best.

That leaves the US and Russia, big countries at 300 million each.
The rest of the world isn't worth discussing.


They will be competitive at anything they do just from weight of numbers.

However, hockey is not the dominant sport.

Russia it's second or third, in the US it's probably 5th or even 6th.

So again, drawing on the numbers of kids who enter hockey, the talent pool
gets diluted quite a bit.


Our result was dismal, last year and this.
I was very unhappy to hear about this selection procedure, it's nonsense
as usual PC bullshit.

And now we have the results to prove it.

It's good that Don Cherry pulicized the problem.

Maybe next time the selection will be made in a way that's not so insane.

The whole idea of this kind of international competition is to:

A) Send your best players

B) WIN!

That's just so un-Canadian, tho.

Heh heh, you're right.

But nobody else (and not most Canadians either) knows how our players are selected.

Nobody thinks, "Oh, well, they mixed in some second-stringers, so our win doesn't mean as much."

They think, "We beat ya, you bastards!"

And that's not to mention the team itself knowing that it could have been stronger. Those boys are real competitors and they know what's what.