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Originally Posted by SuperMatt18
Canadian teams could easily compete.
They just never have the patience and long term roster building tactics to build a winner. Always rush it and make short term decisions to accelerate their timeline, which limits their top end potential.
The only thing holding Canadian teams back from competing is their own mismanagement.
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There's a fine line for pro athletes and their performance affected by the direct and indirectly and the pressure and spotlight they are under in certain places.
Hockey and Canada is one of them. The expectation of fans of the players and organization, and the need for the organization to go over and above to engage fans and link with the team, thus dragging the players into all that, is a lot different for players to have to manage, and it always has been and will be a lot different than the US.
Some players are cut out for that, most aren't. Benn and Seguin, for example, would get ripped for years to the point of wanting out of wherever they would be in Canada, considering how much they make and what they have sometmes produce in a season or playoffs if they played in any Canadian market. In the series vs Calgary, Seguin especially was terrible, Benn not much better, both being paid more than any Flame in the ice.
In Dallas though, outside of the owner calling them out (which died after a few days) they've continued to be hot and cold in Dallas, playing without that pressure or spotlight or sense of obligation that players that play for Canadian NHL teams have to contend with.