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Why Dont Americans Like Hockey


11-02-2007 06:50 kyle250705
38 posts	So basicly The NHL is being killed in most of its american markets especially in the south. I realize this is a post that has nothing really to do with music, but i was just wondering what it was about hockey that does not appeal to american viewers. And for any non-Americans out there, how big is hockey in your country?

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11-02-2007 07:00 lemonlime110
80 posts	I'm from canada.. but its still much more over-rated here.. and since you are from canada... i dont really have to explain.. but yeah.. u are wayy of topic posting that here.. sory
11-02-2007 09:16 Schatzi
21,747 posts	I love hockey & most people I know love it too. But I guess Michigan is close enough to Canada, eh, to have the same love for it? Too late/early to say more than that.
11-02-2007 14:27 PinkFloyd
26,354 posts	Yeah, are you kidding, everyone in my family watches hockey, I don't so much anymore, but used to a lot.
11-02-2007 14:33 xoparisxo617
3,035 posts	I love hockey.
11-02-2007 16:07 Dagor
38,012 posts	for the same reasons that the rest of the world doesn't like it either.
11-02-2007 16:52 carole
28,823 posts	lol daniel.. as far as i know, hockey didnt exist before i met gabe. now it does and pple actually play it, watch it, and enjoy it.
11-02-2007 18:43 fishmunky
22,062 posts	Here is the simple explanation for why hockey gets more attention in Canada, northern Europe and the northern U.S states Kids grow up playing it ice hockey is popular in countries with colder weather because there is reason to play it there...pick up games of pond hockey are popular from a young age In Canada and such we are accustomed to games of hockey growing up, because its the organized sport most of us were pushed into now lets look at it logically...how much snow does Florida, California or Tennesse get? exactly, how many kids grew up playing hockey in these areas...maybe 1 in 300 thats why Hockey will never be huge in a place like Atlanta, Nashville or Tampa Bay Anaheim will probably win the Stanley Cup this year...and much like Tampa and Carolina the previous the city will give a collective meh and still not sell out hockey games funny fact the 6 Canadian teams account for 1/3 of the NHL's overall revenue...big shock huh....1/5 of the leagues teams generate 1/3 of the revenenue The fact is the commmissioner is an idiot and is trying to generate a market where it doesn't exist St. Louis failed to get 10,000 people to a game b/w the Blues and the Leafs...a game that would have been money 5 years ago The NHL is riddled with problems right now and it needs to be changed from the top up
11-02-2007 18:58 mikey_boy
20,510 posts	Bettman is possibly the worse commissioner of any sport. but he thinks he's so great. how the owners havent fired him is beyond me. the NHL will be a joke until someone gets into that position that knows what they're doing. i love hockey, and im american. i played street hockey religiously for 3 years straight. i would have loved to play ice and continued playing but it was far to expensive for me to afford especially as a goaltender.
11-02-2007 19:07 Bucephalus
3,879 posts	Like Anthony said, the climate really dictates this as much as anything. Most of southern America doesn't get a lot of snow or cold weather, therefore they don't have kids playing ice hockey. It's much easier to play baseball or something year-round when it never snows.
11-02-2007 19:36 NightHobbit
23,504 posts	hockey always reminded me of lacrosse.
12-02-2007 12:30 vandy
9,642 posts	a friend of mine hypothesized that football is so much more popular here than soccer because there are so many opportunities in football for media timeouts...could the same apply to hockey? I know very little about the sport.
12-02-2007 14:36 Pandora
23,369 posts	the only reason I know anything about hockey is because some of my cousins used to live up in the northern states when we were younger, and I would go up and visit them... then when they moved back here to Georgia, we picked up street hockey... we didn't have much of a crowd to play though, because we were the only people with any sort of equipment. It's the climate, it's alot of things. We have the Thrashers, and a local ECHL team called the Gladiators, they get alot of people watching them here and there because it's so foreign to so many people... but we grow up playing basketball/baseball/football.... 85% of people here won't lay hands on an hockey stick their entire lives.... You could say here, hockey is to Canada, like baseball/football is to most of the US. rockon tabitha
12-02-2007 14:39 indiechick_
10,814 posts	^ i'm the living proof that you can be canadian AND yet dislike hockey.
12-02-2007 15:28 Cheater138
19,812 posts	I grew up in upstate New York. I wouldn't say hockey was the BIGGEST sport there but it was popular. Like many people have said, because of the cold weather, ice hockey was very popular in the winter. A guy I grew up with got drafted to the NHL the year we graduated actually. That was a pretty big deal back home, being that it was such a small town. But down here in Texas though... not so much hockey. The town I'm in is all about football... It reminds me of one of those stupid football movies...
12-02-2007 16:05 Pandora
23,369 posts	^ i'm the living proof that you can be canadian AND yet dislike hockey. haha my boyfriend was born in Washington state, but was raised here in Georgia and he despises pretty much all athletics, he doesn't care to go to/watch a game either... which is almost unheard of for a 'southern boy' .. so I totally understand that. rockon tabitha
12-02-2007 20:57 dark_knight86
4,992 posts	I like hockey, playing it that is, not watching. Watching sports is boring, I'd much rather be out playing it but since I live in California, it's hard to find a place where they play hockey so just have to stick with rollerblading.
16-04-2007 08:08 italianbliss03
2 posts	I live in Ohio and I love hockey, I know a lot of people that like hockey. More people are getting into it too. I don't think the ducks are going to win this year...i'm thinking buffalo will considering they have been doing so well. Just a guess.
02-10-2009 08:47 Bucephalus
3,879 posts	like i said earlier, it's not a sport kids grow up playing in America... and as a fan, most names i can't even pronounce.. It's a sport where mos tof the great players aren't american, and it isn't shown on TV too often, so the opportunity to even check it out doesn't exist.. even some of the Stanley Cup games weren't televised where I live. that being said, Pittsburgh is absolutely hockey crazy, so is Penn State for the most part.. In part because their baseball team never, ever has a shot at competing and they don't have basketball.. It's all about the Steelers and Pens (mainly since they became good again with Sid and Malkin)