The real problem and bottleneck in Canada is that our domestic competition structure is broken. At least in the US the local competitions have the right structure (event finals and all ). That makes them properly ready for going out to these other competitions.
Our juveniles and pre-juveniles don't even have a national competition and their highest competition for the year is sectionals ( and keep in mind PEI is considered a section ). When a summer or fall competition has multiple groups and no event finals it means that the best skaters within a section only see each other at sectionals. And the competition in smaller sections is a joke because those sections are just too small. Our skaters don't get the chance to properly push each other early.
There is lots of room for Canada to improve the quality of its domestic competitions without breaking the bank. Event finals at all competitions and merging some of the smaller sections ( no way PEI should be a section of its own ) would go a long way to improving the situation. For one I think all of the Maritimes should be one section for a start.
I am not against sending pre-juveniles and juveniles to the US but the domestic structure in Canada must be cleaned up first.
Our juveniles and pre-juveniles don't even have a national competition and their highest competition for the year is sectionals ( and keep in mind PEI is considered a section ). When a summer or fall competition has multiple groups and no event finals it means that the best skaters within a section only see each other at sectionals. And the competition in smaller sections is a joke because those sections are just too small. Our skaters don't get the chance to properly push each other early.
There is lots of room for Canada to improve the quality of its domestic competitions without breaking the bank. Event finals at all competitions and merging some of the smaller sections ( no way PEI should be a section of its own ) would go a long way to improving the situation. For one I think all of the Maritimes should be one section for a start.
I am not against sending pre-juveniles and juveniles to the US but the domestic structure in Canada must be cleaned up first.