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Originally Posted by curves2000
Well you may think it's a bad take but the proof is in the numbers. Canadian teams just don't win. They don't win cups, they don't win series to the same degree. When they have gone to the cup finals in recent memory (04, 06,07,11,21,24,25) they have lost. Some of those teams were underdogs, some favorite and I may have missed one.
American teams seem to be able to actually turn it around and be really competitive quickly. This is a Flames form and most of us are Flames fans but are the Flames really a team that we can look forward to the next 10 years as being an elite club? In all honesty?
Other fans are laughing at Leon, McDavid, Hughs, Mathews and other elite players in Canada leaving for greener pastures. Would that hypothetically happen in other sports to Canada on a never ending basis in a competitive league? European soccer stars fleeing Paris, Milan, London and Munich for the chance to win in Calgary and Winnipeg? Imagine if American NFL teams just couldn't break through because Regina hoarded all the talent and Calgary/Edmonton were out bidding NY and Miami?
I don't see any legit NHL fan who can sit here and say 32+ years of losing non stop in a balanced system isn't some sort of concern. It's clear Canada can not compete in the current system and nobody in any team has been able to figure it out cause they would need to drastically outperform by a different level in order for that to happen.
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Have you done the simple math that there are only 7 Canadian teams to start with and then add in that a lot of the cups were won by the same team.
The Sabres are really turning things around quick. The Sharks had a team that couldn’t finish. The Rangers, Wild, Blue Jackets, and Islanders are bastions of success and quick turnarounds. Even Ovechkin only has one cup. Winning a cup is hard and management matters, I’d agree that Canadian teams have had a lot of subpar management though. If the Oilers had better management then they’d have two cups instead of Florida.