U18: 2024 Team Latvia

[WarriorofTime]

No, not really.

Murnieks, who is considered a generational talent, has never been a part of HS Riga and he is entirely home-grown.

You don't need to be from Riga or move to HS Riga to become a pro hockey player or make the national team.

It's just that the HS Riga team is the effective U18 NTDP. But if you would look up the Latvian U17 league, you would immediately see how many different teams and cities are represented there.

So I literally have no idea what you're talking about.

You argue just to prove my point in par. 4, sentence 1?

 

[Namejs]

You argue just to prove my point in par. 4, sentence 1?

The causality goes in the opposite way of what you suggested and implied.

It's like saying you have to move to the USA U18 NTDP to make it in hockey in the States. It's just the way their system is set up on purpose. The actual hockey pyramid is not in any way based on a single hockey academy.