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Enough Of Hockey Nightmare In Canada

Published: 6 May 2016

Please read this one evening, during Hockey Night in America, when you have nothing to do. That no Canadian team made the playoffs this year may be a random occurrence. That none has won a Stanley Cup for 23 years is not. Something is up -- or down.

All kinds of explanations have been offered: the low Canadian dollar, higher taxes, questionable management, players preferring obscurity, and so on. Don't believe any of it; they are all excuses. The fans are here, the audiences are here, the money is here, and the energy is here, or at least could be.

Henry Mintzberg is Cleghorn Professor of Management Studies at the Â鶹AV's Desautels Faculty of Management.

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