Falling Leafs, downed Jets, extinguished Flames – and Canada’s declining ownership of hockey Globe_Sports
Maddie Meyer/Getty ImagesCanadian hockey fans have every reason to be down right about now. On Tuesday night, the Toronto Maple Leafs lost yet another Game 7 to the Boston Bruins. The Calgary Flames and Winnipeg Jets had already made depressingly early playoff exits. Canada’s other four teams never made it beyond the regular season. And so, sometime in early June, for the 25th time in a row, Lord Stanley’s Dominion Hockey Challenge Cup will be lifted by a team from outside the Dominion.
It will go lower. All one has to do is look at the NHL draft, the annual June selection of 18-year-old prospects. The draft, as with the league, was for years a Canadians-only affair. No longer. Hockey fans have watched the future of the game shift each Christmas at the World Juniors, the international under-20 tournament. After Canada rattled off five golds in a row from 2005 through 2009, the past decade has not been good. Finland, with barely more people than British Columbia, has the most golds, three, and Russia has the most medals, eight.
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