Question about hockey in the U.S.?

Yes!

There was an article a couple of years ago where NASCAR driver Jeff Burton complained about the number of foreign drivers in NASCAR because Americans only want to watch Americans.

Tennis knows this better than anybody. Tennis TV audiences are down 70% since the early 1980s due to lack of Americans (In 1982, 12 of the top 20 men, and 14 of the top 20 women were American....today only a handful of the top 100 for each are Americans.

No, you guys can keep Beiber and Celine Dion. You can throw them off into the ocean and nobody would care. Actually, international relations would improve, worldwide. Spaceboy: 2) There's an American law requiring Canadians to carry a passport across the border too. 4) Crackberry is better than the iPhone as a communication device. 5) We can't take back basketball or else your hoodlums will wage a drive-by war. 7) Barenaked Ladies are better than Sloan. 8) AM radio usually carries sports games and talk radio up here; something that keeps the graveyard shift up. You should go to Ottawa's Elgin Street Diner for the best poutine in the country, which makes it best poutine on the planet. Spaceboy: Yes, IMO....my bad.

Not significantly more popular. But hockey is popular in the U.S. and the perception that it isn't is false. You got to understand that there are other sports that are popular here, and like soccer, it happens to stand where nature has it.

Now, unlike soccer, if it wasn't for the United States, the NHL would not be what it is today. Besides, if hockey is so popular in Canada, then why hasn't a stand-alone professional league been established there? If the CFL can do it, then why not the game that Canadians call their own?

I think the answer is "kind of." Popularity would grow in the city that he plays.....and when they visited other NHL cities but that is no different from Ovechkin or Crosby.

My reservation on saying YES absolutely is that alot of Americans don't even know who there best player is (Zach Parise).

I think it would depend on where he was playing. Americans who live in northern states tend to be more educated about hockey. It's not as popular in Southern states.

I think a reason hockey isn't as popular in those States, is that when you live in a climate where it doesn't snow, you tend not to be exposed to winter sports as much. I live in Colorado, and contrary to popular belief, when you aren't in the mountains, the winters aren't bad. Ponds don't freeze enough for people to skate on. If you want to skate, you have to pay to do it indoors. (Although the Avalanche are still pretty popular here, though not as much as our NFL team.) States in the South tend to focus more on football and NASCAR. (Which is not entertaining at all.)

No...the only way hockey will be more popular in the U.S. is if people are educated a little better in the rules and strategies. Most people don't understand hockey and that's why most don't like it, besides from the fact goals are more scarce than points in MLB/NBA. People like points, and a 3-2 game doesn't excite people. I think if you educated people a little more and made goalies smaller and somehow increased scoring it would be better.

no. the popularity of the sport can be attributed to the lack of media coverage, no broad based TV coverage, and other "sports" spending more money on advertising.

there is a "night" in Canada for hockey. In America, there is "monday night football". that's not hockey's fault.

You'd think they'd adopt Crosby, as one of their own. Instead of selling out, to a russian cry baby! Are the russians not supposed to be the enemy, in the hockey world? Shouldn't Canada and the US, be almost like brothers? It really doesn't make much sense to me.