Not sure you can teach or build a team to beat Canada when Canada is on our game. Either you have the talent to do so or you don't. You can't manufacture the talent or teach the talent except by starting with youth. It's all about grassroots hockey and the USA is headed in the right direction with lots of new emerging hockey states. Players are coming out of places like Florida, California and Arizona.
If the USA keeps developing talent like Austin Matthews they'll close the gap. At this point they just can't stack up to Canada. Doesn't matter if they take Kessel or not, doesn't matter if Torts is the coach or not. Canada has a much bigger wealth of talent at the moment to pick from. But that's changing and there's a lot of young American talent being drafted every year. It should be a worthwhile rivalry at best on best in 5-10 years IMO
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