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CXRAndy

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Eh 1980 V 1966 :biggrin:
 

CXRAndy

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Dorset Boy

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Eh 1980 V 1966 :biggrin:

Given the NHL is by far and away the strongest ice hockey league, and the US has more top level players than any other nation, no golds in 46 years is staggering.
Soccer is at least a global game and the No1 sport in a huge number of countries. It is far, far, far more competitive at international level than ice hockey.
Can you see the difference?
 

deptfordmarmoset

Über Member
It’s the only win the Trumptonians have had against Canada in the past year.

Though the same result played out with the women a few days ago.
 
Given the NHL is by far and away the strongest ice hockey league, and the US has more top level players than any other nation, no golds in 46 years is staggering.
Soccer is at least a global game and the No1 sport in a huge number of countries. It is far, far, far more competitive at international level than ice hockey.
Can you see the difference?
A decent analogy would be rugby union, or somewhere between union and league. Or, in terms of the number of competitive nations (not participants), cricket.
 

CXRAndy

Epic Member
Given the NHL is by far and away the strongest ice hockey league, and the US has more top level players than any other nation, no golds in 46 years is staggering.
Soccer is at least a global game and the No1 sport in a huge number of countries. It is far, far, far more competitive at international level than ice hockey.
Can you see the difference?

For Canada Ice hockey is one if not their biggest sport, that and lumber jacking

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Pinno718

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Given the NHL is by far and away the strongest ice hockey league, and the US has more top level players than any other nation, no golds in 46 years is staggering.
Soccer is at least a global game and the No1 sport in a huge number of countries. It is far, far, far more competitive at international level than ice hockey.
Can you see the difference?

It's not. The top players have little interest in the Olympics. No pay. Risk of injury.
 
It's not. The top players have little interest in the Olympics. No pay. Risk of injury.
I don't think this is quite true. I was in Vancouver in 2002 when Canada finally won again. It was a big deal. Street parties, people driving around standing on the back of their pickups waving flags all day. It isn't quite what the World Cup is to footballers, but it isn't far off.
 

midlandsgrimpeur

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Given the NHL is by far and away the strongest ice hockey league, and the US has more top level players than any other nation, no golds in 46 years is staggering.
Soccer is at least a global game and the No1 sport in a huge number of countries. It is far, far, far more competitive at international level than ice hockey.
Can you see the difference?

The Canadians would beg to differ, they have about 100 more NHL players than the USA, I agree with the general sentiment though that the US are perennial underachievers. It is noticeable that lots of smaller nations (in ice hockey terms) also punch well above their weight; Sweden, Finland, Czech republic, Russia and so on.
 
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