For chapter one "the Matthew Effect" and how Gladwell support his argument?

Chapter 1 of Outliers, "The Matthew Effect," begins with an account of a 2007 Memorial Cup championship game between the Medicine Hat Tigers and the Vancouver Giants; the Giants emerged victorious. The Tigers and Giants are two Canadian junior hockey teams. According to Gladwell, Canadian hockey could easily be regarded as a meritocracy--wealth and family background, after all, do not matter in determining hockey skill. However, Gladwell states that common assumptions about merit and commonplace, self-made-man success stories do not accurately explain how success is really attained.