Jeff Roynon

Husband, father of two incredible kids, hockey coach, interested in all thing data related and love for the outdoors.

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@yyzsportsmedia They are entertaining. That’s why I watch.

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@odognine2 @OverDrive1050 You guys are awesome!

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@yyzsportsmedia @Ron_MacLean 100% agree with you.

[BarDown @BarDown]

Nic Dowd's brother shotgunned a beer after reading the starting lineup 😂

(via @Capitals)

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Pretty accurate…

[Topher Scott @HockeyThinkTank]

Thoughts on Team Canada at World Juniors:

There's been a lot of discourse today about Canada's performance after bowing out to Czechia again. I've read a lot about roster construction, team toughness, how players were used during the tournament, and other things related to the team's inability to get the job done.

These things may have been an issue, but reality is the problem runs way deeper.

Here is the biggest thing that people aren't talking about:

Canada has WAY fewer youth boys playing hockey than it did a decade ago.

Looking at Hockey Canada registration and membership data, it's mind-boggling to see the numbers.

And the numbers in the biggest provinces (Ontario and Quebec) are especially egregious.

So why is this happening? Hockey is Canada's sport. It shouldn't be like this.

It's what we hear every day from families all over North America:

Costs are too high. It's professionalized at too young of an age. The stress of the youth hockey experience is too much for kids and families.

Community programs have been replaced by for-profit entities leading to higher costs and more pressure. Development has been replaced by super teams and rogue/outlaw leagues outside of Hockey Canada even before kids are 8 years old. At the older ages, hockey academies have become what families believe is the only way their kids will make it - shelling out INSANE amounts of money to send their kids to do so.

Ontario just got rid of residency rules which will only lead to less accountability and more club-hopping than there already was in the nation's craziest and biggest youth hockey market.

The reason why Canada was the hockey superpower for so long is because it was part of the fabric of the country. There was such a pride and passion for the game and what the game meant to the flag. There was such a sense of playing the game for something bigger than yourself.

Now rather than playing for the love of the game, hockey in Canada is like a job for many of these kids in the environment they're being put in. It's less about pride and passion and more about the path to making it. When in all honesty, it's the pride and passion for the game that is the biggest consistency in the kids that do end up making it.

If Canada wants to restore its hockey dominance, it better take a long look in the mirror at the grassroots and what is going on in youth hockey. If you have tens of thousands of fewer boys playing the game, you should probably look at that first. The bigger your pool of athletes, the more elite athletes you can develop.

"As many as possible, for as long as possible, in the best environment possible". That has to be the guiding principle.

There's a lot of great people in Canada doing incredible things for the game, but the system itself is fundamentally broken. If Hockey Canada is serious about getting back to the top, it has to start at the bottom.

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@Ken_Campbell27 @SteveMcLean888 Brendan Shanahan will clean all this up. 🙄

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@yyzsportsmedia @odognine2 @HayesTSN @jamiemclennan29 @BleavNetwork Great interview. These three are the best!

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@OverDrive1050 @mickey_canuck “This is prime time.”

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@OverDrive1050 @HayesTSN @odognine2 @jamiemclennan29 A 2 hour show is really disappointing.

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@HackswithHaggs Worry about Sweeney’s ability to draft players. Not the greatest track record.

[Fun Tom 🇨🇦 💂 @funtomvids]

🟥 This is hilarious! 😂😂

Even back then, 15 years ago, the brilliant Rick Mercer, and ALL Canadians, knew Pierre was in it for HIMSELF and unfit for leadership. 🤌🏼 #PensionPoilievre

🔳 RICK MERCER: “We wanted to get some fun stories from people who have worked with Pierre before he became a Member of Parliament. Now unfortunately, we cannot find ANY evidence that he actually held what most of us would call ‘a JOB’.”

[Mercedes-AMG PETRONAS F1 Team @MercedesAMGF1]

Imagine… Thank You, Lewis

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@TheGarfoose Dr Nick Rivera from the Simpsons was his first choice. 

[Fun Tom 🇨🇦 💂 @funtomvids]

IMMIGRATION... 🫴🏼🇨🇦

🟥 Here’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s full, POWERFUL, 7-minute video breaking down the Immigration situation in Canada. 👍🏼🎞️

Please WATCH and learn the FACTS. ✅

Don’t fall victim to Conservative DISINFORMATION. 🗣️🗣️🙄
This is what ACTUALLY happened, and where things STAND. 🤌🏼⬇️

#Immigrationpolicy

[Michael Russo @RussoHockey]

Marc-Andre Fleury is a true treasure. Walking back to the #mnwild locker room, he just hopped on the sheet of ice with these teenagers in the Penguins Excel Hockey Camp and surprised them by tending goal for two minutes

[Jeff Roynon @Roynon]

This is so well said. The value of adversity!

[Topher Scott @HockeyThinkTank]

KIDS: The quicker you can learn the value of going through adversity - and working to come out stronger on the other side - the more you’ll be prepared later in your journey when the adversity gets more difficult.

You’re building muscle memory going through the tough stuff that will help you become the person and the player you want to be.

Adversity is really a gift in disguise. If you choose to see the positive in it and persevere through it, you’ve built an amazing skill that can make you unstoppable.

🔗🎧 https://t.co/sNNNWzmkgR

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@ArponBasu @SportsOnPrimeCA This production on @SportsOnPrimeCA is terrible. Intermission show was awful. But Gary doesn’t care, the non Saturday night Sportsnet productions are going downhill as well.

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One of the classiest gestures I’ve ever seen in sports.

[Jason Myrtetus @jasonmyrt]

Flyers Head Coach John Tortorella called Guy Gaudreau and asked him to come to and help coach practice today as a way to support the Gaudreau family. I hope we see even more of Guy with hockey supporting the Gaudreau family.

[CNN News Central @NewsCentralCNN]

JUST IN: A fact check of the big debate. CNN's Daniel Dale (@ddale8) notes "Trump has been staggeringly dishonest and Harris has been overwhelmingly (though not entirely) factual."

@JohnBerman

[Timmy Crowe @timmy400h]

If you have a few moments to listen to this interview as a parent with your child.
Possible one of the best post race interviews I have ever watched #PlayOn