If we're talking about the elite athlete and owning the podium and going to the Olympics, when we look at the spectrum of sport, will other sports eventually catch up to hockey?
When youngsters are 12 or 13 years old and identified as hockey players, before you know it they're off living and playing hockey in Kamloops when their hometown is Yorkton, Saskatchewan. They're going to be part of that whole hockey fraternity that is really raised by surrogate parents, if you will, because they are billeted out. But you can't debate the skill level they're undergoing in terms of training at the junior level with the coaches who are there across the west, and the east for that matter.
Will the other sports ever catch up, following that kind of strategy, or is there a different strategy we should be using? How do we train the elite athlete?