I think that there is a lot of truth to the fact that we are over teaching goaltenders in the lower ranks of hockey - and instead of promoting creativity and athleticism, the Canadian hockey system is elite at pumping out goaltenders who play a butterfly style. You can stop the import but there aren't that many goaltenders who were imports that played in the CHL and moved their way up to the NHL to dominate, a lot of the elite European goaltenders are trained in Europe.
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