STINSON: Does Canada win on how talent is cultivated, or in spite of it?

Wayne Gretzky played major junior hockey as a teenager for the Soo Greyhounds in northern Ontario. Sidney Crosby played in the Quebec league. Connor McDavid…

It’s a question worth asking again as attention has been cast on Canada’s junior hockey system following the sexual assault allegations stemming from two separate World Junior teams, 15 years apart.

But while much criticism has centred on the vaguely defined culture of the sport, and Hockey Canada has itself vowed to combat issues around “masculinity” and “toxic behaviours,” the reality is that Hockey Canada, the national sport organization, only has so much influence over the players who are thought to be part of that same cultural problem.

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.

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