Don Cherry is a redundant and silly relic.
1) The 2004 U.S. of A Roster who clown stomped the Canadians for gold had only 4 guys with CHL training.
2) With all due respect to the role players Cherry rattled off who were CHL-trained on the 2010 team, Stepan, Kristo, Damigo, Zucker, Kreider, and Schroeder never sniffed Canadian Junior Hockey and had a pretty fun and effortless time dismantling Canada's vaunted roster.
As for Carlson, it's typical of an aging and arrogant Canadian mouthpiece like Cherry to think that the whopping 59 games Carlson spent in the CHL is what made him a great player, even though he was drafted in the 1st round before he ever played a CHL game.
3) In 1992, 134 of the 264 players drafted were Canadian. Only 38 were American.
In 2000, 96 of the 293 players drafted were from Canada. 56 were American
In 2007, 102 of the 211 players drafted were Canadian. 63 were american.
See a trend? I do. Look at NHL rosters. Canadians barely make 60 percent of NHL rosters. In 1989, it was almost 90 percent. The best thing that happened to Canadian hockey was the KHL and the NCAA.
4) Cherry the idiot makes no mention of Gibson for the U-17's, who won the game for the US making 38 saves and played his midget hockey in Pittsburgh, not Canada.
It's not "your game" anymore. It's everybody's.
You may believe that North of the Border, but down here in America, we're proud of our American boys and the 90 percent of their hockey lives they spent getting trained in America by Americans