Have any nation ever dominated a sport like Canada have dominated hockey?

[BobDobolina]

FWIW;
So many Canadian haters on HF its funny, especially around Olympic and WJC times... Its odd tho, when your favorite American team lift the Cup with 90% of Canadian player, I don't see any of you foreigner being mad about it because be honest, its Canadian player who bring those Stanley Cup in your country. (Sole exception lately are the Wings with Swedes and a Russian).

Yawn. People don't care if it's Canadians, Russians, Icelanders or Mongolians in their NHL teams, they care about the team. For every Canada hater as you put it there are 2 obnoxious Canada homers.

 

[frostyflo]

Canadas best players played in the NHL.

its like last years WC: Canada played bad, lost early. you say the best players were in the playoffs so that doesn`t count but you don`t dominate something just because you COULD dominate it

The Austrian FIS Alpine Ski team has won the last 20 overall Nations Cups (overall total World Cup points of all skiiers) including the men's Nations Cup from 1993 onwards and the women's Nations Cup from 1999 onwards. They have finished in the combined top 3 for every year of its existence (1967 onwards), and the men's team has finished 1st or 2nd every year but two. Their individual skiiers have 200 more wins than the next closest county (Switzerland) and over double any other country (they have more wins in downhill than any non-Swiss country has in all events).

 

[New User Name]

Yawn. People don't care if it's Canadians, Russians, Icelanders or Mongolians in their NHL teams, they care about the team. For every Canada hater as you put it there are 2 obnoxious Canada homers.

Well. I agree but we took lessons and learned well from the most obnoxious "we are the best" "if not for us" "we saved the world" blah, blah blah, kind folks in a country just south of us.

 

[patnyrnyg]

its like last years WC: Canada played bad, lost early. you say the best players were in the playoffs so that doesn`t count but you don`t dominate something just because you COULD dominate it

I understand it is a big deal in Europe, but most in North America do not care about the World Championships. Kind of like soccer in the Olympics.

 

[New User Name]

Close, but not quite
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Erhardt
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Wyman

okay 98%

 

[Murphy9]

USA and Canada in Lacrosse.US just won the World Championship.Canadas pretty studly at Lax too.

 

[Incognito]

Lame excuse to cover up the fact that the USSR was once the best team in the world for several several years.

What are you talking about? Canada was not allowed to send pros to the Olympics. If they had been able to, then the USSR would not have been nearly as successful as they appeared to be.

 

[Statsy]

Like a lot of people have mentioned on here already, my vote also goes to USA's dominance in Basketball. It is not a niche sport played by only a few countries, most everyone plays the game. Yet if the US sent their top players and not just a second tier team of NBA representatives, it would be a wipeout. And probably for generations to come...

 

[MOGiLNY]

It's threads like this that make it so difficult to cheer for Canada

 

[Klaus]

 

[New User Name]

USA and Canada in Lacrosse.US just won the World Championship.Canadas pretty studly at Lax too.

US dominates at field lacrosse - USA have won 11 of 13 golds and 2 silvers

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_L...e_Championship

Canada kicks ass at Box Lacrosse.

 

[missinthejets]

I dont think so. Canadas dominance is unique.

Canada dominates curling far more than it does Hockey.

 

[ginblossoms]

They have since 1994

american nba stars are usually reserved for the olympics... not the world championships... not that different from hockey actually, where marginal nhl players or dominant euro league players typically play in those tournaments...

another example of dominance in an international sport... south korea and archery... more of a modern phenomenon though... (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archery_at_the_Summer_Olympics)

imo, as mentioned before, the best example is usa and basketball... bball is more international than hockey... also, there is no concept of a big 6/7 like hockey (where in a given tournament, 6/7 countries have a legit chance at winning)... in basketball, for all intents and purposes, it's the usa and then everybody else... more so now after usa basketball became much better organized... canada and hockey was like this way back in the day... in the future, let's see if something similar happens with the usa and basketball...

 

[New User Name]

It's threads like this that make it so difficult to cheer for Canada

I'm sure most Canadians couldn't care less if you cheered for Canada.

I know I don't.

 

[New User Name]

Listen folks. If the Americans took any sport serious they would dominate.

It's a numbers game more than anything else.

The one thing that pisses me off more than anything is people saying Canadian heart....come on every nation has as much "heart" and will to win as Canada.

In fact, I'd say when it comes to patriotism and wanting to win for your country, Americans are number 1 there.

 

[Nakawick]

y'all are gettin' trolled

There are a few posters with Canadian flags in their profile that are very good trolls. Who knows if they are even from Canada.

 

[Confucius]

What are you talking about? Canada was not allowed to send pros to the Olympics. If they had been able to, then the USSR would not have been nearly as successful as they appeared to be.

Not to mention they took over half of europe made the best players part of the USSR team sent the next best to the salt mines and left the rest to play for the communist countries. Sort of like the U S taking over Canada and then saying look at our team now...

 

[BobDobolina]

Canada dominates curling far more than it does Hockey.

Curling is not a sport.

 

[Botta]

Of course, there is a zillion "sports" that is only played in one or just a few countries.

Maybe if you would narrow it down to "Olympics sports" we get more close to a valid argument.

I know we(norwegians) are very dominating when it comes to throwing milk buckets, so I think we are way more dominant than you are in hockey.

 

[jekoh]

USSR?

Really?

Canada won the 1972 Series, its all that matter.

The 1972 Series, a.k.a. "who's the 2nd best team behind Czechoslovakia".

All their Olympic Gold they won, Canada didn't played any NHL player on their club.

Well neither did the USSR.

 

[Statsy]

USA and Canada in Lacrosse.US just won the World Championship.Canadas pretty studly at Lax too.

USA at field and Canada at box. Awesome sport for those of you that may not get to see it often.

Here's a question for all the European guys on the forum. Exactly how much interest is there in Lacrosse overseas?

 

[Frank Bascombe]

marty 4 hart = genius. He's running in circles around us all.

 

[Klaus]

There are a few posters with Canadian flags in their profile that are very good trolls. Who knows if they are even from Canada.

Wouldn't be surprised if they weren't.

We have, or had, a guy like that on the BOH board

 

[ginblossoms]

Canada dominates curling far more than it does Hockey.

this. canadian curling is quite intimidating! heheh...

 

[New User Name]

Curling is not a sport.

so says the know it all American.


Funny, most Americans say hockey isn't a sport