Finishing with silver and bronze is good achievement but how can anyone be happy as keeping up with similar success will be very hard to replicate without much better player material available. Canada, Russia, US & A, Sweden or Czech Republic likely wouldn't be that thrilled to enter just another tournament already defeated in that sector. Finding world class coaching or difference making goaltender to even that out might turn out to be rather tricky whenever someone like Westerlund or Rask isn't available anymore.
Agree with the argument, but not with the reasoning attached to it.
We've done pretty good, considering. And I don't see that ending in a moment, even if the eventual "golden age" would actually lead to stagnation that pretty much leaves us where we are now. Note, not falling, just in the present situation. Our teams would still be medal contenders.
At the very least, said constance would be easy to maintain since running out of world class goalies or coaching are the least of our worries ATM. Even with our current crop, we're guaranteed top-of-the-world netminding at least for the next ten years into the future. And coaching the Finnish NT is more or less a legacy thing. Every new guy brings his own flavor in it, but ultimately they change very little since there a proven formula that works. It's not like soccer where you can clearly see drastical changes whenever there's a change in management - of course, this is naturally due to the fact that on that pitch,
nothing has really worked thus far.
In other words, you're saying that we're fragile because our success has mostly been dependent on two pillars holding up the entire house - however, you fail to mention that said pillars are pretty much the strongest we've got. Plenty of good goalies and coaches to pick from.
However, like you implied, we shouldn't really say "things are good" even if they maintained the status quo. We shouldn't really thrive to be a bronze- or occasional silver-winning team. As long as the suits and some apologist fans call those good results (even if they are, from a relative point of view) and appear happy with it, things aren't really moving in the right direction.
Seriously, gold once in every two decades simply isn't acceptable, especially if there isn't a drastic flood of contenders taking that final step into the rather narrow elite. And
that should be our motivation to produce better players, not the fact that we'd then have other pillars to lean on should our two strongest ones fall.