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"If you're going to alienate an 18-year-old kid, like good job. Their job is development and progression of Canadian hockey. If I am a problem child, that means they don't like problems, that they have an issue with fixing things, that they like when things are easy. That actually means that they don't possess the ability to develop and that they are just taking players to fit their role that have been developed somewhere else."
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When Hockey Canada selects the players they want on their team, they're choosing the ones that they believe will give them the best chance to win. They're not choosing players with the mindset that "we want to develop and fix this player." That is something you work on with your junior team and in the off-season.
It's hard to fix and develop skills over a two week tournament or a one week camp anyways. The ones that do make the team/camp and saw improvement in their game as a bonus were the ones that earned their spot in the first place. Ho-Sang doesn't understand that.