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Originally Posted by GirlySports
I think De Vos is a former captain who played for Canada since u17 days. So he inherently hates guys like this.
Hart, in a perfect world, should tell them to shove it. But he can't afford to when they get to the HEX and the pressure increases. Canada needs as much depth and as many players as possible to survive a 10 game round.
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If Devos had captained his teams anywhere near a sniff of the final qualifying groups, there may not be an issue now, as more players may have committed to the team since then. Obviously not his fault entirely, but that is about as logical as his argument.
The CSA has dug their own grave over the past decade+ of turning off talented players with all their political BS, which has as much to do with things as (and is related to) the results on the field.
Fact is, everyone likes being associated with a "winner", no one likes a loser, and in players' perspectives especially, where it will take at least 4 more years of a career to get to this same point to have have this same shot at being a "winner".
To just get to the World Cup would be one of the most significant moments in Canadian sport in the past 2+ decades, maybe longer.
Today gives them that shot...it reminds me of the Flames getting out of the first round of the playoffs all those years. They get over that hump today, and pressure is off. Win 4-5 more games and tie a couple more next year out of 10, and you're probably in the WC. Lose and the program is in disarry for 2 years or longer.
Cmon Canada!