Hockey Canada Loses Again: Have Canadians Gone From Not Enough Skill To Too Much?

There was a time, circa the late 1990s, when the late Ken Dryden was so concerned about the lack of skill in Canadian hockey that he actually called a summit of the stakeholders to find the reasons and fix the problem.

And he was right. At the time, Canada was all heart and gumption and physical play and goaltending, with a definitive lack of elan.

But now, almost 30 years later, it seems the tables have turned.

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Hockey Canada and its president-CEO, Katherine Henderson, must look into this if the Canadians want to be at the top of the hockey world. The losses keep building up.

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This story was originally published May 31, 2026 at 8:12 PM.