The American players singing their national anthem together after winning Gold at the #WorldJuniors πΊπΈ pic.twitter.com/JenCCaVTLO
— TSN (@TSN_Sports) January 5, 2024
Anyway, I watched every minute of every game of the World Junior tournament this year, and with my interest in college football somewhat waning a bit over the last couple years I've found that this tournament has increasingly replaced bowl games as my go-to holiday season sports watching.
They were by far the best team of the entire tournament, both in terms of how they played as well as just their overall talent level. While it used to be that Canada produced an overwhelmingly larger share of the highest end NHL talent level... this result is just another piece of evidence proving that the USA has basically or nearly caught up to Canada when it comes to producing high end players. In fact... if they were to play a best-on-best senior international tournament with NHL players right now I would slightly favor the Americans over the Canadians.