The losses keep mounting for Hockey Canada, which lost the bronze medal game at the World Championship and didn't win the Olympics, world juniors or U-18s either. This is more than an aberration.
There was a time, circa the late 1990s, when the late Ken Dryden was so concerned about the lack of skill in Canadian hockey that he actually called a summit of the stakeholders to find the reasons and fix the problem.
And he was right. At the time, Canada was all heart and gumption and physical play and goaltending, with a definitive lack of elan.
But now, almost 30 years later, it seems the tables have turned.
In case you haven't noticed, Canada is not the reigning world champion at either gender at the IIHF level. They're not reigning Olympic champions, they're not world junior champions, they're not U-18 champions at the men's or women's level, and they didn't even win the Hlinka Gretzky Cup.
After losing to Denmark in the quarterfinal at last year's World Championship, the national men's team lost in the bronze medal match to Norway on Sunday.
And it's certainly not because of a lack of skill.
It's because of a lack of goaltending, defense and big-game killer instinct. Which is really, really strange to say about Canada.
Hockey Canada and its president-CEO, Katherine Henderson, must look into this if the Canadians want to be at the top of the hockey world. The losses keep building up.
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