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Originally Posted by Resolute 14
As has been noted, the Q is easily the third best league in the CHL. I would also note that no team from Quebec's Junior A league has ever won the Manitoba Centennial Trophy or the Royal Bank Cup, going back to the tournament's founding in 1971. In the last 16 years, only four teams from Quebec have even advanced out of the East regional playdown. Given it is Quebec vs. Atlantic Canada, it seems they should have an advantage.
Frankly, Quebec has fewer players drafted and playing because the province develops fewer NHL calibre players. The utter lack of success at the junior level is telling, and given that is where the NHL drafts its players from...
Only one player from the QMJHL was selected in the first round of the 2010 draft - a kid from PEI. Only one taken in the second round - an import from the Czech Republic. The next kid was an import from Russia. The fourth QMJHL player picked, 68th overall, was the first Quebecker taken.
Frankly, Quebec needs to look internally for problems, not externally. It isn't discrimination leading to a supposed lack of francophone players in the NHL. Discrimination is not why there are only a handful of Latvian and Swiss players in the NHL either.
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Hockey Quebec absolutely sucks these day. They are not producing elite players anymore because that's no longer what their system is deigned to do. It's completely designed for recreation with little emphasis on competition. Elite players are not given the opportunity to succeed they are in other systems. Outside of that, Hockey Quebec is full of politics. If the QMJHL didn't have the Maritimes and Newfoundland filling its cupboards (traditionally these kids played in the OHL), it would be a bigger laughing stock than it has already become.
Quebec has nothing to blame but itself, but in true Quebecois fashion, they start pointing the finger at everyone else.
No NHL GM gives a goddamn where a player is from if they are good enough and eligible to play in the NHL. In fact, the only team that actually does care a bit (because of the idiocy of their fans) is located within the borders of Quebec.