This month, we all witnessed how being two of the world’s hockey
powers has its advantages and disadvantages.
Notably, some of the nominations—or non-nominations—for the 2014 American
and Canadian Olympic Ice Hockey Teams seem to have drawn some attention. Let’s take a closer look.
For the United States, Bobby Ryan was left off of their roster. Shortly after the announcement, thoughts from
a member of the selection committee were released to the media and the fiasco
that ensued was pretty hilarious. Why
any organisation would share such information with a reporter is beyond
me! It did nothing but invite trouble,
as we all saw. In any case, too bad for
Ryan—he’s a good hockey player.
For Canada, Martin St. Louis was not selected. As outlined in the media, Steve Yzerman was
in a no-win situation. The real problem
is that Canada has too many good players to choose from. In fact, Canada could send two teams to the
Olympics and it still would be difficult to select the players. If you take a quick peek at the NHL
statistical leaders, you would see that the majority of the leaders are
Canadian and some of the individuals who are currently in the top five were not
named to the team—including St. Louis.
With his recent four-goal performance, it makes you wonder if it was the
right decision to leave him off the team.
We’ll see soon enough!
- B. J. T. Pepin
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