If you came up with Canada\u0027s major junior system today, proposed it was a way to develop hockey talent, most people would think you mad
They can be traded in mid-season, benched, dumped, forced to take on a role that was totally different than what was originally expected of them. If you came up with this system today, proposed it was a way to develop hockey talent, most people would think you mad. The teens don’t have any say over where they go and play? An elite young hockey star has less agency than, say, a barista?
But that’s just the way it works in hockey, in Canada. Other hockey nations, lacking Canada’s junior-system infrastructure, develop their best young players in other ways. They play collegiately, on elite youth teams, or sometimes against older players in semi-pro leagues. In the United States, there is both the NCAA pathway and a national-development team, each of which has turned out players who are National Hockey League stars today.
On Wednesday of this week, the members of Parliament on the Standing Committee for Canadian Heritage directed the vast majority of their questions, and their opprobrium, to Scott Smith, chief executive of Hockey Canada, and his lieutenants. Also there to give evidence were the men in charge of the CHL, and its member leagues. They rarely had occasion to speak.Article content
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