As a child, I lived in Canada for five years during the early 1970s. Back then, the National Hockey League (NHL) was almost entirely Canadian, with 90.2%1 of the players hailing from Canada in 1974. Fast forward to today, and that number has dropped to 42.2%2. Naturally, this must mean there’s a crisis in Canadian hockey, eh? After all, hockey is a cornerstone of Canadian culture, and the drastic drop in Canadian representation in the NHL must signal the collapse of their system—at least, that’s what the numbers seem to imply. I have often shared this story throughout my career to …