Yeah the world cup is far from major. The trophy was basically going to Canada the whole way through, hardly a major tournament win. There are two teams that are remotely near them in terms of ability and one picked a poor roster and lost great players to a gimmick team and the other lost to the other gimmick team in the Semis due to their elite goalie not looking so elite anymore.
I'm sorry, this excuse is BS. Just because team USA effed up with their roster doesn't diminish the fact that Canada is (and has been for a while) head and shoulders above everyone else.
Elite goalies have stinkers in Olympics as well as play offs, that's the nature of elimination games. Had there been team Slovakia (which team Europe essentially was) would you have had a problem with them winning? And highly doubt Sweden would have beaten Canada in best of 3.
I'll give you inability of USA to stack up their roster with under 23 talent but they were gazillion miles away from utilizing the pool they had to work with, do you really trust them putting together a truly best and most competitive team that would have challenged the juggernaut that Canada is?