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Originally Posted by Haplo
In what way is Sweden clearly inferior to Russia and USA? Strange statement. I can't see it, neither currently or historically, unless you count the Soviet Union. And I doubt any country beats Canada in arrogance regarding hockey.
Anyway Canada and USA have what, at least 10 times the number of hockey players as any other country? Of course that will show in the number of players in the NHL, if that's one of your indications of inferiority.
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For those interested...According to Wikipedia, at December 2012 Canada had 617,107 registered players and Sweden had 69,921.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_hoc...ers_by_country