Canada+USA vs. the World

Have you noticed in recent Olympic Winter Games, Canada has two gold’s and one silver and USA has one gold and two silver’s in women’s hockey? This year, they both will be competing in the Gold Medal game, guaranteeing them a gold or silver medal. Canada and USA have dominated the women’s ice hockey tournament, at the Olympic Winter games, with Sweden, with one silver and one bronze, and Finland, with two bronzes, are the only other two nations with medals. But I’m going to explain to you why this might be different, not in 2014, but in 2018 and 2022 by adding a women’s professional league. And also why this may not happen.

In the men’s tournament, Russia dominates with a 2-0-1-0 and has a GF-GA of 13-6 but, in the women’s tournament Russia is 1-0-0-2 and has a GF-GA of 3-19. A big difference. But I think that this might change along with the Slovaks and Chinese, joining in on the medal hunt. I also think that the one factor that would help women’s hockey the most would definitely be making a women’s professional hockey league. This is why we have men’s teams like Kazakhstan and Denmark trying to get to the Olympic Winter Games, because they have one, two or more professional players on their teams whereas teams like Canada, USA and Russia have all their players from professional leagues, either the NHL or the KHL.

It may be different in 2018 or 2022 in women’s hockey, but it could not happen possibly… If Finland, Sweden, Slovakia and Russia can improve, then Canada and the USA can improve, right? But Canada’s women’s hockey organizations are growing every year, with as many as 1,000 more girls joining this great ice sport. Canada and the US are still winning in the U-17, U-18 and Junior tournaments meaning that the next generation, will not be the changing of the guard, making other countries stronger and more competitive.

So, I think that unless other countries get better quickly or Canadian and American girls’ hockey comes to a standstill, Canada and the US are going to be the best for a long time. On the men’s side, from 1920-1952, Canada won every gold medal except one, and the year that they didn’t get the gold medal, the Great Britain team was mostly Canadians, 11 in total. So maybe it will take 10-20 more years for the teams to get to become more developed and more competitive in women’s hockey.

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