Canada shows their not alone with poor performance at world championship.

One would figure with all these upsets going on in the NHL playoffs canada would have a fairly good team in the IIHF world hockey championship. On paper they do look very good. With names like Tavares Getzlaf, Perry, and Keith, and Cam Ward in goal, one would figure they would at least be in the semi finals. But no. Bounced by the rival russians in the quarter final. We need to face facts that Canada does not produce the majority of stars anymore. Yes we do have sidney crosby, the best player in the world, but russia has a close second in Alexander Ovechkin. Plus players like the Swedish sedins and the Russian Pavel datsyuk  Carey Price is the best goalie in the world. But he is about the only star canadian goalie. There is also american's Jimmy howard and Ryan miller, swedish goalie Henrik lundqvist. The swiss Jonas hiller. Tim Thomas is also American. We are not alone anymore. I find that people still have a hard time coming to grips with that. I thought this was well established after russia gave canada a run for it's money in the 1972 summit series. But all the people I know and talk to seem to think that every time we lose it's a fluke. That we are the only talent and that everyone who isn't canadien is a bad hockey player. It's really quite sad. Not to mention Russia blowing us out for the majority of the thrilling world junior semi-fnal. I hope we can soon come to grips with the fact that we are not alone atop the hockey world. Don't get me wrong, we are still among the best. What I am pointing out is that the key word there is among. Other countries like sweden and russia and even switzerland and the czech republic are their too. We are a nation that needs to come to grips with that.