WJC: World Junior Hockey Championship Is Not What It Could Be
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FuriousSenator
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It could do with a few more fans in the stands actually...
It's absolutely pathetic in Montreal right now.
It's absolutely pathetic in Montreal right now.
It could do with a few more fans in the stands actually...
It's absolutely pathetic in Montreal right now.
What's more pathetic is the price of tickets. $70 a ticket, around Christmas/New Year? I think that pretty much explains it.
Leafidelity
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It could do with a few more fans in the stands actually...
It's absolutely pathetic in Montreal right now.
No kidding. How on earth are there more people at the Denmark/Russia game than USA/Finland?
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The ticket prices have gone way too high. This used to be an affordable tournament to go and watch. Now they treat it like a professional level tourney. That is the one major issue.
As for other countries not improving, who cares? Are we missing out because Mexico and Thailand aren't here? No. No one complains when Canada misses the World Cup every four years.
As for other countries not improving, who cares? Are we missing out because Mexico and Thailand aren't here? No. No one complains when Canada misses the World Cup every four years.
slovakiasnextone
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Considering how expensive hockey is a sport, I'd think that everyone would realise that this:
was always just a dream.
Also the article claism Switzerland to be the only country that improved, that is hardly true. Othe countries have improved as well, Denmark for example, while others have been getting worse or stagnated.
The improvement in Denmark has however been helped from the outside as well, plenty of their top talent grew up in Sweden. Although of course Denmark itself has to be praised for the improvement they have managed. There's no reason why the top countries should be helping the other countries any more than it has been in this one case IMO.
Furthermore, the article seems to assume that hockey isn't popular in other countries because they are bad at it. I believe it's more that those teams aren't good because hockey isn't popular there, so the talent and money mostly goes to more popular sports in those countries.
was always just a dream.
Also the article claism Switzerland to be the only country that improved, that is hardly true. Othe countries have improved as well, Denmark for example, while others have been getting worse or stagnated.
The improvement in Denmark has however been helped from the outside as well, plenty of their top talent grew up in Sweden. Although of course Denmark itself has to be praised for the improvement they have managed. There's no reason why the top countries should be helping the other countries any more than it has been in this one case IMO.
Furthermore, the article seems to assume that hockey isn't popular in other countries because they are bad at it. I believe it's more that those teams aren't good because hockey isn't popular there, so the talent and money mostly goes to more popular sports in those countries.
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FuriousSenator
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Maybe you could shed some light on why Montreal really struggles with attendance for everything not Habs?
I find it's (was) truly bad for the Alouettes, Impact and the Expos of course and wildly disproportionate to Montreal's population size.
Such a strange phenomenon. Do people just not really get into sports there?
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If you want to get a nosebleed. They go up if you want decent seats. I was looking for some in the lower bowl and they were around $250 for Canadian games.
Who has dreamed about such? A sport that requires ice and horribly expensive equipment could unfortunately never be that big.
From a journalistic point of view, I would like to see some statistics. Where teams placed in certain tournaments, exc.
I feel this was more of an opinion piece than an actual news story. While I don't doubt expansion will be done eventually, the NHL has said that expansion is not part of their plans in the near future. They have listened to ideas and allowed a seasons ticket drive to start in Vegas but nothing is confirmed. I don't know whether you do this for a hobby or actually pursuing a career in writing, but you can not have something like this in there if the latter.
And where in your opinion would they place these 10 new teams? Sounds pretty far-fetched if you ask me...
Not to mention, there are Canadian+other coaches in lots of places. I would have liked to see some investigation in to how many coaches there actually are abroad.
Being surrounded by journalism and writing for the past year and a half, that was a tough piece for me to take seriously at all. But hey, practice does make perfect. Keep working on it.
I feel this was more of an opinion piece than an actual news story. While I don't doubt expansion will be done eventually, the NHL has said that expansion is not part of their plans in the near future. They have listened to ideas and allowed a seasons ticket drive to start in Vegas but nothing is confirmed. I don't know whether you do this for a hobby or actually pursuing a career in writing, but you can not have something like this in there if the latter.
And where in your opinion would they place these 10 new teams? Sounds pretty far-fetched if you ask me...
Not to mention, there are Canadian+other coaches in lots of places. I would have liked to see some investigation in to how many coaches there actually are abroad.
Being surrounded by journalism and writing for the past year and a half, that was a tough piece for me to take seriously at all. But hey, practice does make perfect. Keep working on it.
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Jussi
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KHL is not about about developing hockey, except maybe Russian hockey. Ask any Russian poster.
That's pretty standard procedure for all WJC's in Canada. If you want to see Canada play, you have to buy tickets for non-Canada games too. Montreal was not singled out.
Montreal likes winning teams, and also top-tier events. Many Montrealers don't give a damn about the CFL or MLS because it simply is not the best level that specific sport has to offer. For the Expos, the stadium is in a terrible location and the MLB... anyways, you get the point.
I'm still convinced that this is the type of event that would thrive in Montreal if the people selling tickets had any sort of clue. Of course its sold out in Toronto, there's more money being thrown around so the ridiculous "you are forced to buy the entire round robin" ticket packages actually got sold.
Could be wrong, but that is my thinking on the matter.
When it was in Ottawa, I was able to buy single game tickets to the Canada - Czech Republic game weeks in advance. In this case, I think the singles were released a week or so ago.
3 Minute Minor
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Blame TSN for silly ticket prices. They might not set them but they're the ones that commercialized the balls out of this tournament.
Eagle Eye Cherry
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Ya totally. Hockey canada is really milking the hell out of this tournament.
I tried to buy single game tickets and they're were priced to the equivalent of montreal Canadians Saturday home game. Just unaffordable. Basically you gotta break the bank if you really want to see the game.
Hockey canada are crooks, imo.
