Golden_Jet
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- Sep 21, 2005
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Ya , I wasn’t referring to AAA solely, I was using hockey Canada registration numbers for everyone.YES on the first sentence. NO on the second.
I did a related study comparing USA and Canada for 18U AAA. It was about flat for Canada since COVID except for 23/24 where it dropped off by 6 teams, just like you're saying. But...
Trend is down in Canada though. The increase since COVID is still below last year before COVID, so from 2013 peak it is going straight down. It's only recovering from COVID but overall going down.
The problem is cost. We Financialized everything on the planet by increasing money supply to the point where few people who received that money bid up prices for most of the people, and grinded expensive sports to a slowdown, and if it keeps going, to a halt. So naturally people started doing something else and to be exact: something cheaper.
Look what happened to back country skiing. I have not seen so many people wondering through mountains in the winter. All expensive sports will die off. That's literally how it works. Even capitalism undoes itself. You're not being poor to play those sports, you are being robbed.
I actually believe we don't need NHL, Hockey USA, or Hockey Canada. I think we need independent cheap amateur hockey like back in the day, where kids are not over coached, but do it for fun.
But looks like we kinda agree. I think.
Registration keeps going up every year from Covid., I posted the numbers somewhere, from HC.
But hasn’t got back to its peak yet.