Is there any hope for us mutts? We've taken more Stanley cups of course, but they have humiliated us on the ice at the IIHF 13x over.
Also, frick Canada.
Is there any hope for us mutts? We've taken more Stanley cups of course, but they have humiliated us on the ice at the IIHF 13x over.
Also, frick Canada.
Here's what it's like to be an American hockey fan:
Imagine you're in Japan, and you're watching a Japan-based basketball game. Every single player on the basketball court is black, very black, and clearly from Africa. Wide noses, big lips, long dreadlocks. All of them.
They hit long 3's, do 360 dunks and generally light it up and put on a show.
The Japanese man beside you says "Ha! See? I told you that the Japanese were amazing basketball players!"
You think to yourself "The players in the game are clearly not Japanese, and yet this man pretends that they are because they're being paid to play in Japan. He actually believes that Africans playing basketball in Japan makes Japan good at basketball."
and now you understand what it's like to be an American "hockey fan" who cheers for "American" teams and believes that it's an "American win" when Colorado wins the Stanley Cup.
Every player on that roster is white.
>kadri is white
inshallah
they actually have a hockey culture. then again american hockey players have been gradually getting better and canadian phenoms have been getting more and more mediocre (see sean day, joe veleno, alexei laffreniere, and shane wright)
>then again american hockey players have been gradually getting better
no they havent
the one american even getting close to his hype is matthews
beniers is living well up to his hype and he played a quarter of a season.
the fact he only played a quarter of the season is prove enough he did not live up to the hype
even dahlin played 82 for the same team
beniers was in college
and? if the bigs call you up, you answer
Kane was that. Now they have Matthews. Eiserman on the way. A bit down from Superstar level is Gaudreau and Eichel but without injuries Eichel would've been that Superstar level talent. US is easily second to Canada when it comes to top talent in the NHL
so two players worth mentioning across 2 decades?
lmao
>US is easily second to Canada when it comes to top talent in the NHL
a distant second
1993
>Why do they dominate hockey?
because they're literally the only people who play it
If it snowed in Africa Blacks would take over the NHL
american development is on the decline as well only had 7 americans selected in the first round
they had 9 in 2019
see
how does the NCAA keep getting a bigger percentage of the draft?
players are realizing getting a free american college education is beneficial to their future
why would they do that instead of just going pro?
The two main paths to the NHL in North America are the CHL and NCAA. The NCAA considers the CHL a professional junior league and won't allow CHL players to play in the NCAA system. So if you have the skills to get a hockey scholarship, but aren't likely to make a long career out of hockey, then you might stay out of the CHL and go for the American college system so you have a diploma to fall back on.
more access to ice rinks
more rigorous pathway to professional hockey
For people who don't understand. Canadian teams haven't won the Stanley Cup for such a long time that Canadian hockey fans need a VPN and create a thread like this for some cathartic relief.
when did the stanley cup become a competition of nations?
Stop coping. There is no way to take Canadian incompetence out of the equation. Whichever way you spin the story.
'1993' is just banter, you idiot
Number of ice rinks. Canada has about 3000 indoor rinks. America has about 1600. Russia has 800. Sweden and Finland have about 400.
We are the only.cpubtry who play it
Its thx to the french
American teenagers are too busy worshipping nogs, small hockey towns aren't really a thing in America.
Because us and Finland are the only 2 countries who have it as their #1 sport. Its pretty easy to be domiante in any sport that isn't soccer tbh