Its really hard to pick up hockey at a young age. Even people who show interest and want to don't necessarily have access to the sport easily, can be financial or region based reasons
And how does this prevent them from watching the game?
Its really hard to pick up hockey at a young age. Even people who show interest and want to don't necessarily have access to the sport easily, can be financial or region based reasons
You're missing the point. MLS isn't a league that gradually more popular. It was a league that didn't exist a generation ago. Comparing now to even early 2000s MLS is a joke.It is important for Americans that their professional sports league is by far the best in the world.
That's one reason why soccer can never become a truly popular sport in the USA as their soccer-league is rubbish and even if it gets better it is impossible that any one soccer-league would ever become absolutely dominant compared to others.
It's a constant competition between the Premier League, Serie A and La Liga.
Yah man serious insecurities afloat in this thread. Basketball and Football were given a massive head start thanks to the NCAA. Baseball is just so bloody old, and it worked real well on the radio. Hockey is entirely reliant on expansion teams to spread the sport.Like I have mentioned in previous posts the NHL is #4 domestic product. If you look at expansion they were pretty late to the game expanding their footprint in the states. Think about a place like Arizona who got the Jets in the 90s it's still only a couple of decades barely multiple generations of ppl at this point when compared to a Boston or Detroit. I absolutely dislike Canadian fans that want teams in the states to fail. Without the US this league would be in CFL territory where you wouldn't know if they would playing next year or not. The salaries would be low to the point where players would elect to potentially play other sports. Overall, expansion has been good for the NHL. Look at a market like Nashville where grass roots have taken into effect. They have their celebrity fans, promoted local play by play guys, and youth hockey is growing. It been barely 2 decades since they got a team.
Seriously by their logic Nascar wouldn't exist.And how does this prevent them from watching the game?
why is that?Sports in general are becoming less relevant with each passing year. Hockey is no different.
Too popular if you ask me. The best thing that could happen to hockey is to make it as unpalatable as possible to the southern US, the majority of whom don't give a f*** about hockey's traditions and are more than happy to push to change them to suit their whims when they become "fans".
Because if it weren't for growing the game there'd be no cap, the leafs would just buy their way to the finals each and every single year. Without expansion there would be no cap full stop. The expansions are the only thing keeping this league from being a country club for the O6Yep, no one has ever been able to give me a good reason as to why I should care about "growing the game". I have heard a lot of parroted replies that do nothing for hockey.
The NHL should contract.
The focus on casual fans has already made the game worse.
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Because if it weren't for growing the game there'd be no cap, the leafs would just buy their way to the finals each and every single year. Without expansion there would be no cap full stop. The expansions are the only thing keeping this league from being a country club for the O6
Yes, should make it like the NBA where the superstar gets all the calls and nobody else matters.If they catered to skilled players and teams over those who want to slow it down with obstruction it would be more popular. Unfortunately, they just love allowing garbage teams hook and hold their way through the POs.
I started watching the NFL on tv before I started playing football at age 11. I started playing baseball at 7 years old in a league and was playing some form (wiffle ball, etc) since I was 3 in my backyard. I never played hockey formally aside from phys ed class deck hockey, occassional roller hockey in the street where we pulled our garbage cans out to make goals, and as an adult played a few seasons in a mens deck hockey league because my friends worked at the facility and the owner needed an extra team to make scheduling easier. I am a season ticket holder for an NHL and NFL team and baseball is the sport for which I care the least of the 3.Its really hard to pick up hockey at a young age. Even people who show interest and want to don't necessarily have access to the sport easily, can be financial or region based reasons
I started watching the NFL on tv before I started playing football at age 11. I started playing baseball at 7 years old in a league and was playing some form (wiffle ball, etc) since I was 3 in my backyard. I never played hockey formally aside from phys ed class deck hockey, occassional roller hockey in the street where we pulled our garbage cans out to make goals, and as an adult played a few seasons in a mens deck hockey league because my friends worked at the facility and the owner needed an extra team to make scheduling easier. I am a season ticket holder for an NHL and NFL team and baseball is the sport for which I care the least of the 3.
What is deck hockey?
I’m thinking gym class where you had the plastic orange pucks, that was fun.
Ahhh. So what many would call floor hockey or ball hockey. No skates.
That’s my best guess ya.
Still weird to hear on NBC, the words “ice” hockey.
My dad played basketball when I was young, as a really tall kid it was the only thing I was moderately good at. I enjoy shooting hoops, own a basketball(no skates/no hockey stick).I started watching the NFL on tv before I started playing football at age 11. I started playing baseball at 7 years old in a league and was playing some form (wiffle ball, etc) since I was 3 in my backyard. I never played hockey formally aside from phys ed class deck hockey, occassional roller hockey in the street where we pulled our garbage cans out to make goals, and as an adult played a few seasons in a mens deck hockey league because my friends worked at the facility and the owner needed an extra team to make scheduling easier. I am a season ticket holder for an NHL and NFL team and baseball is the sport for which I care the least of the 3.
Same as floor hockey. No ice, no skates (roller or ice skates). Lots of running. In phys ed as a kid, we used the orange mylec pucks. In the mens league, we used a ball. In the mens league we played on some sport-court surface. In phys ed, it was hardwood.What is deck hockey?
why is that?
Same as floor hockey. No ice, no skates (roller or ice skates). Lots of running. In phys ed as a kid, we used the orange mylec pucks. In the mens league, we used a ball. In the mens league we played on some sport-court surface. In phys ed, it was hardwood.