MvsW: The Future of the U.S./Canada Rivalry

The Jeff Marek Show

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4.4 • 887 Ratings

🗓️ 3 January 2024

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Jeff and Greg Wyshynski kick off the new year breaking down the young hockey talent that is coming out of the United States, the development paths that are available to youth in America, and what the future has in store for the U.S./Canada rivalry. Then, the pair discuss how the American squad will fare at the World Juniors with Canada being eliminated, before getting into the Senators' upcoming decisions and the situation between Ryan Hartman and Cole Perfetti. The views and opinions expressed in this podcast are those of the hosts and guests and do not necessarily reflect the position of Rogers Sports & Media or any affiliates.

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0:00.0	I am welcome back in the program. I am welcome back in the program. I almost don't want to
0:09.5	welcome Greg Wishinsky from the SPN to the program because this is going to be essentially a 30 minute victory lap, but here we go.
0:18.0	Congratulations Greg your team is going to win the world juniors.
0:22.0	Now hold on.
0:24.0	I was under the impression that we were going to celebrate something else
0:29.0	off the top of the show.
0:31.0	Oh, we're going to get to Steve Stios as well,
0:33.7	don't worry how you.
0:34.3	All right, good.
0:34.8	Well, okay, let's start with World TV.
0:37.2	So I, let me get it out of the way.
0:39.6	Get it out of the way.
0:40.3	Get it out of the way. First of all, welcome to the era of American hockey dominance.
0:47.0	I was just talking to somebody earlier today about the fact that you and I, when we did
0:51.2	MBSW very early on in the show we talked about the fact that all the only
0:57.1	thing standing in the way of the Americans to dominate hockey was the numbers game was the idea of getting our best elite athletes to play hockey and it still hasn't happened. I think most of our best elite athletes still play
1:10.9	professional football and basketball, but it's that's changing, that's changing man.
1:15.4	It's changing.
1:17.2	What's changing is the number of elite American athletes
1:20.8	there are now playing hockey. And the fact that we can go toe to
1:24.7	toe with the Canadians in like a best on best tournament with the Hughes brothers
1:29.4	Nica Chuck's and Austin Matthews and Jack Geichael but you know the thing that had to change wasn't necessarily the
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