my hockey position is simple

a Canadian team should win

and also no team from a place without winter should beat a team from a place that does

exactly!

I was really hoping Edmonton would pull through

We were all pulling for Edmonton ;.;

Hell of a good effort forcing a game 7, though.

magicom: except for squall

ALL Flames fans, thank you very much

I mean, keep in mind, this is not the first time. Lightning were back-to-back champs a few years ago

and we were mad then too,

Florida has a hockey team?!?

Florida has 2 hockey teams: Panthers and the Tampa Bay Lightning

We also have minor-league teams but idk how they rank.

Maybe Canada just needs to get good

canada has to keep their players up there to win

They’ve got Canadian players winning cups for non Canadian teams

^^^ yeeeah

Which tbf has been an issue for a long time (according to my very limited understanding of hockey)

well you're not going to get NHL calibre players growing up somewhere without winter

fertile people in Canada will TIME THEIR PREGNANCIES to try to make their kid more competitive at hockey

personally I'm kinda glad an October birthday means being less competitive at hockey so I don't have to take him to 6AM hockey practice

I may have made a despairing comment to my Canadian emigre mother about this being like Australia getting gud at the winter olympics

What is the most competitive birth month for hockey

January

when you're five, being almost a year older than he youngest kids on your Timbit hockey team makes you SO much bigger and faster than the December babies

and then those kids get more focus from the coach right from the start

so most high level players were both in the first few months of the year

I mean we’ve had tropical countries win winter Olympic events already lol

The US is pulling some wacky ass wins this year. Cricket....hockey.....

Nah us winning the cup is normal. Canada hasn’t won the cup for like 30 years

there are conspiracy theories about it

Or the U.S. has a lot of immigrants. Seriously, we could turn SO many assholes into allies if we just focused on "immigrants help us win sports"

Yeah, the hockey players as an export commodity is why we generally assume we're winning Olympic hockey and get big mad when we don't.

Okay, so now how to get all of Latin America to be so good at a sport that Republicans will HAVE to allow amnesty!

(something other than soccer; it's still taking too long for people to get over the whole "football/futbol" thing)

many baseball players are from there, but baseball is waning in popularity

we need taylor swift to date a baseball player so that mlb becomes popular