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The Iron Law of Canadian Hockey Is Still an Iron Law
Roger Barnsley's paper on relative age effect came out in 1985. The world has been alerted for decades to the fact that all kinds of supposedly meritocratic systems have been hijacked. Can you Google the roster of the Canadian Junior Hockey Team, National Hockey Team for 2021-22? Listen for birth months of seven or higher. This 40 years ago, the Iron Law of Canadian Hockey is still an iron law. Isn't that funny? It's depressing. Very depressing.