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Just noticed team USA has a player named Jack Drury in the lineup, so I went and googled him, and... yep.
Seriously, is there a sport outside of fox hunting that is more nepotistic, exclusive and aristocratic than hockey?
Everyone is someone's son. Unreal...
And the NHL is even proud of this fact.
"Our sport is a tight-knit monochromatic circle where your admittance is guided by bloodlines and pedigree... Oh, and check out our marketing slogan: Hockey Is For Everyone! Nice, huh?"
nhl.com/news/jack-drur…
Once again, it's not to say that legacy players are not good. Of course they are.
The point is, THIS IS WHY THEY ARE GOOD.
In hockey, legacy players have an enormous advantage. Much more so than in other sports. It's a huge problem that hockey doesn't recognize (& even embraces).
It's not about genetics. Genetics play a minor role. It's about hockey's inaccessibility, its closed-off culture, its prohibitive socioeconomic strata, its snobbishness and, yes, racism is also a huge part of the equation.
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