"What is the evidence, and what does it mean?" Bill James
Subject: Re: 63 to 18 Date: 15 Sep 1996 14:02:35 GMT From: ae047@sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca (Glenn Chin) Organization: Saskatoon Free-Net Newsgroups: rec.sport.hockey References: <51h06u$6m8@fin.firstnations.ca> Mac Beaton (mac.beaton@dlcwest.com) wrote: : Given that 63% of NHL players are Canadian and only 18% are American one : would think that Canada should have won the World Cup of Hockey easily. : Does the fact that the NHL recruits heavily from Canadian Major Junior : Hockey leagues mean that Canadians are getting an unfair share of the : grunt jobs in the NHL? It seems to me that I read or heard somewhere that : there are almost as many American minor hockey players as there are : Canadians. Is this true? I saw in a recent edition of The Hockey News that there are 480,000 players under the age of 20 playing hockey in Canada and 320,000 in the United States. Within 7 to 10 years, the US will have more minor hockey players than Canada. And when Russia gets its economic house in order, Canada will eventually drop to third in world hockey supremacy. Glenn
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