Players across the league are leaving their teams up north to return home. It\u2019s prompted questions around money, tax rates, geopolitics and respect<\/p>\n
Back in September 1925, Frederick Wilson, sports editor at the Globe, explained the fear among hockey fans that Canadian teams might not be able to compete for players against the new US teams like New York or Boston that were entering the pro league. \u201cWill it be a matter of money?\u201d Wilson headlined his piece. And for about a century, money was the recurrent nexus of the Canadian hockey panic, proven by franchise departures and depleted buying power.<\/p>\n
At the time, Wilson reassured everyone that, no matter the big US cash, everyone on the ice would be Canadian anyway. \u201cIt will be some years before the [US] will be in a position to furnish players,\u201d he wrote. He was right about that. It took a long time for the US to catch up to Canada in on-ice talent. But now that it has, should we expect Americans to want to play anywhere else than the US? For 100 years Canada has worried that the US would just buy all the best hockey players. But now it makes its own and, as the new NHL season gets underway on Tuesday night, they want to go home.<\/p>\n
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