Dude do you have a handicap you aren't telling us about?
And as an fyi Canadian hockey team must pay their players in American dollars and generally don't have the markets that the US does (i.e. population) therefore US teams have greater buying power when it comes to getting players.
Not sure how you figure we have ten times the winter, apparently Texas math is different but whatever.

BTW Clara Hughes is a great lady, raced and travelled with her in the past and glad to see she is still rocking it.