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Originally Posted by rousseau
Let's use top 40 career goals as a metric of comparison
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This metric ignores defensemen, goalies, and players whose specialty is not scoring goals.
Still, Ontario is more-or-less the centre of Canadian hockey players these days, yes. Alberta and British Columbia have made some ground, Quebec has lost relevancy, and the Maritimes pump out the occasional very good player. Ontario dominates, though. ON represents nearly 50% of all points by Canadians this season in what is diminishing numbers for Canadian representation across the league. I don't think ON's been below 40% since the 90s when Quebec was developing more players than today.
Something that crossed my mind a few weeks ago and I think has more relevance is where hockey players come from. Players from previous generations came from small, working-class towns, and that reflected in the sport itself. Now most players come from suburbs from much wealthier backgrounds. Speaks volumes to where the sport is in this country these days.