Hockey Canada has always been a joke & will always be a joke so long as they focus on top down high level teams.
If they would properly implement and fund bottom up coaching mentorship, skills training, and mental health/resilience/skills training the top level teams would take care of itself.
Additionally, a healthy positive sporting environment enables lifelong skills that are transferable outside of sport for ALL elite & non-elite athletes. This should be the goal.
Instead we get too many experts without expertise at all levels.
There are too many coaches who think their own traditional approach or stagnated understanding of the game is the right or only one rather than what has been tested, researched, and validated with evidence.
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