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Originally posted by georgewallace3
sorry, I like posting on here.
US Hockey will never be greater than four or five. And no, we don't have the resources. 3/4 of the US doesn't stay iced over and snowy like the hockey power nations.
C'mon man, 80% of the NHL is made up of foreigners.
Furthermore, the US doesnt give a rats about hockey. It is second tier compared with baseball, football, basketball, golf, nascar......
Hockey is all some countries have.
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The only thing is the relative size difference (which is at least 10fold) between the US and the other nations - and while the % foreigners in the US is going up, it's still primarily a North American league.
I agree though, youth hockey programs pretty much eat ass in the states - I grew up in a cold-weather climate, and we couldn't even field one team for every high school, some were combined . . .
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