Evan

[Sola 🇨🇦 @SolaTheAnalyst]

Canada has three major telecom companies. 🇨🇦

Two of them are Rogers and Bell.

They have been charging some of the highest mobile rates in the world for thirty years.

Every few years the government announces it will fix the problem.

Rogers and Bell are still here.

So are the bills.

[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Community programs have been replaced by for-profit entities leading to higher costs and more pressure. Development has been replaced by super teams and rogue/outlaw leagues outside of Hockey Canada even before kids are 8 years old.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.

[Tech Bro Memes @techbromemes]

me opening Teams every morning

[Made In Canada @MadelnCanada]

Beyond insane that half of Canada’s population lives in a little strip that forms a near perfect line and we don’t have a high speed train running down the middle of it.

[Evan @evan96thomas]

@earthcurated

[M🐝 @CakeMcJabe]

Who would've guessed that drafting a bunch of 5'8", 110 lb Finnish guys named Peepee Pooponen would've gone poorly

[Meg @megannn_lynne]

going to da movies

[minnie ✿ @clarkelgbt]

hes like if princess diana played hockey

[Meg @megannn_lynne]

brushing your teeth in the morning is like a little treat…the only way to greet the day….utterly satisfying….but brushing your teeth at night? a hellish chore…walking from bed to bathroom harder than working in the mines all day…getting pissed just thinking about it

[Meg @megannn_lynne]

the dentist asking if a monday at 2pm in november works & you just have to be like Well Ok.

[cay @koralinadean]

just remembered their oscars snub and got mad all over again
https://t.co/0VgUlzkDJA

[Ken Campbell @Ken_Campbell27]

I really believe that like everyone else, Wayne Gretzky is entitled to support whomever he wants. And while he's done a ton for Canadian hockey, making him the Honorary Captain for Team Canada for this game is just plain tone deaf.

[Joey Swoll @TheJoeySwoll]

Congratulations to Team Canada our brothers and sisters to the North on the big win. Team USA played hard but it wasn’t our night. What I love is the amount of people that got to experience the incredible sport of hockey for the first time because of this game and are now fans.