Quoting: KSIxSKULLS
I mean besides the whole secret fund thing, they have done a very good job, no? Canada still remains as the best hockey development country in the world and we still create the best Canadians despite being a pretty small country.
The "whole secret fund thing" is a major issue that should not be minimized. After all, ruining the lives of many young women (as well as men, through normalized hazing/bullying and the like, plus ingrained racism, etc. but the major focus right now is obviously on trying to not let gang rape be a thing, and not covering it up when it happens) is far more important than churning out NHL players. And honestly, Canada is the best hockey country only because of it being ingrained in the culture of this country. Hockey Canada itself doesn't have much to do with that at all imo. In fact, I don't think they do much of anything well. I've had some serious issues with HC for years now, even ignoring all the gang rape cover-up stuff (which we can't do, because that is a disqualifying factor, obviously). We don't have anything like the USNTDP for example (probably the gold standard for hockey development programs right now), and I believe countries like Finland and Russia would outclass HC as well, in terms of development of players. Finland has consistently performed well on an international level despite traditionally being the #5 country (I'd argue they're pushing Russia for #3 now). I can't confirm this right now, but I'm pretty sure I heard that the reason Russian goalies are the best in the NHL is because a while back their association identified that as a weak point and started investing heavily in development for goalies, and I haven't heard of HC doing anything similar (which is especially poignant because you could make a very good argument that Canada has reached a crisis point in terms of having good goalies, and has been very thin in net for years now).
Quoting: Saskleaf
I agree, there has to be a step to replace HC some how, you can’t just disband it and not replace it. That would be devastating to hockey in Canada.
Lol
If that’s the case, then I’m glad there’s a plan, of some sort, to replace hockey Canada.
Not sure I agree about the federal government doing a better job, but I’m not discussing that.
I don't trust any politician as far as I can throw them, but doing a bad job that doesn't involve covering up countless sexual assaults is still better than doing a bad job and also covering up sexual assaults, which is what we've got right now. And I don't think HC would ever be disbanded and not replaced, somebody would step in in one way or another (either a completely new organization, or just replacing everyone that works at HC in a major role), but everybody that holds a major role at HC right now has got to go. Fresh blood is essential, and it will also be essential that these new hires be diverse and (ideally) relatively young. Old white dudes cannot continue to run hockey in this country, that much is abundantly clear. And from the greedy, self-centred point of view HC has shown they currently hold, it's also the only way they'll win back sponsors. Not that the specific people care, because they'll be gone in this hypothetical, so the current management is going to fight for as long as they can to retain their positions, or try to get away with minimal resignations. I wouldn't be surprised if we see Scott Smith and Andrea Skinner gone in the upcoming weeks, and then HC try to go back to their big sponsors after sacrificing only those two, and not address the other people in positions of power that have let this fester unchallenged for decades, and who will likely not care enough to do anything about it once it passes the public scrutiny test and gets to the "okay they've changed things up, lets give the new guys a shot now" stage.
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