Aaron Patzer

Putting cover sheets on TPS reports

[Shooter McGavin @ShooterMcGavin]

Dads returning to their families after watching four straight days of Masters coverage

[Aaron Patzer @fenix_sk]

@jamienye Honestly a 10. How can you say it wasn't entertaining? Didn't care for the songs, or understand them, but it was a great show.

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Community programs have been replaced by for-profit entities leading to higher costs and more pressure. Development has been replaced by super teams and rogue/outlaw leagues outside of Hockey Canada even before kids are 8 years old.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

[Dr. Grizzo (PhD, MD, BA, MBA, 7'4 240 IQ) @mrgrozz]

Construction of the Milan olympic hockey rink has been completed, here's our first look at the smaller ice surface:

[Aaron Patzer @fenix_sk]

@QuickDickMcDick Matthew Good band and I Mother Earth literally just went through Winnipeg last week

[Eric Nuttall @ericnuttall]

How is it possible that a tube of steel that moves a product everyone on the planet uses in ever increasing quantities, whose revenue accounts for 20% of Canadian exports, and whose increasing capacity could lift 100,000's of Canadians out of poverty, became so controversial???

[Ryan Gerritsen🇨🇦🇳🇱 @ryangerritsen]

This is the Crown Royal distillery in Gimli, Manitoba, its a 360-acre property along Lake Winnipeg, housing 1.5 million barrels of whisky in warehouses covering 5 acres. It’s the only place in the world making this product before it’s shipped for bottling. Doug Ford just told all of Canada to dump it out and basically boycott them.

[Luke Willson @LWillson_82]

Argo’s fans, and those who like X and O talks. Here is a 9 minute video just on the last play Argos offensive play.

[Skratch @Skratch]

Standard Spieth par right here.

[Jay Onrait @JayOnrait]

True Detective Season 5

[Brad Wall @BradWall306]

On April 28th, we can choose hope over fear.

[Aaron Patzer @fenix_sk]

@Pipeline_Online @Enbridge Not sure if I agree with the point that because Enbridge holds a monopoly over pipelines in this area of the province, that we owe them the chance to build a wind project.
Besides that, I think most people are more opposed to the location, rather than the project as a whole.

[John Ivison @IvisonJ]

"It takes some gall for an assailant to look for gratitude because he stops punching you in the face...."
https://t.co/TUDQEsp3ZZ

[Pierre Poilievre @PierrePoilievre]

Build Canada FIRST starting with the Ring of Fire.

Bring 🇨🇦 resource production & powerful paycheques home: https://t.co/eIy7PDua09

[AI OR DIE @aiordieshow]

KAREN: UNLEASHED

[Just Bins @JustBins]

Welcome class to Tariffs 101:

[Michelle Rempel Garner @MichelleRempel]

The guy you're supporting just went on national TV to announce a new tax on Canadian steel producers and asked the host "how much steel do you use these days?"
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[Aaron Patzer @fenix_sk]

To say a carbon tax on steel makers won't affect the end users because we don't buy raw steel is at best dishonest.

[Pierre Poilievre @PierrePoilievre]

Carney told CTV just a few days ago he plans a brand new carbon tax on steel makers & all other industries at the same time as President Trump tariffs our steel.

Carney’s tax & Trump’s tariff will obliterate our steel industry and make us even more helpless.

Carbon Tax Carney: If he wins, Canada loses.

[Pierre Poilievre @PierrePoilievre]

Carney told CTV just a few days ago he plans a brand new carbon tax on steel makers & all other industries at the same time as President Trump tariffs our steel.

Carney’s tax & Trump’s tariff will obliterate our steel industry and make us even more helpless.

Carbon Tax Carney: If he wins, Canada loses.