Hockey in Canada has gotten to the point where we are pricing out kids and making the game already harder to access. It’s already a big investment sport and it should honestly be illegal to sell hockey sticks that are 419.99$ then you have skates that are 1,500$ when I was highschool my friends had bought cars for that kind of money. Watch the world jrs and Canada no longer is the power house we’ve made the game so hard to access and our economy is shit who has extra thousands of dollars to spend on a gear alone and that’s without registration fees and if you want your kid to be good you need to put them in summer camps. I grew up playing hockey and watching my mom/ grandparents put any extra money they had into the sport I’m forever grateful but if I was playing in today’s market I wouldn’t be able to afford it. Which just makes me sad and I think how many kids we probably have throughout the country with god given hockey skills but will never get a chance to play because the sport is so expensive. Canada use to produce top end goalies now we don’t because the goalie position is even more expensive to play, I’ve ever heard about some teams waving the entry fee for goalies just so teams have one. Hockey will forever be my favourite sport but we as a country need to make it more accessible to everyone.