Who really cares about hockey these days?

Question

I mean, they dont promote NHL like the NFL or NBA or MLB.

Ok, fine hockey might be a cool sport, however, look who is responding, lame canadians. Where are the americans, the ppl who really matter.

Answer 1

The answer why the NHL is not promoted is Gary Bettman. This incompetant commissioner has alienated the fans in hard core hockey towns like Winnipeg, Hartford, and Quebec for soft cities like Raleigh, Columbus, Miami, Tampa, and Nashville. He alientated all fans to lower the salaries and get costs under control. It shouldn't have lasted a year. He alienated ESPN and joined OLN. Very few in the US get OLN. I had to wait for NBC to broadcast a game to see a game on tv last year. And that was on during the day when no one watches hockey. I missed most of the playoffs except for the finals, thanks to Gary Bettman. The NHL will continue to be a minor league until we can get some marketing geniuses involved, not some basketball schmuck. Cancel OLN and put hockey back in towns that supported their teams until bad owners got involved and moved small market teams out of key rivalry cities like Quebec and Hartford. Let me run the league!!

Answer 2

Not that it matters, but I care.
I imagine I'll be watching a bunch of hockey coming up soon.
1) I'm learning.
2) I've loved it forever.

However, I am from a Northern state.
I fall under the previously stated stereotype.

My guess is that people associate hockey with Canada... and people dislike Canada for some reason.
Honestly, I'd rather live there.

It's OK though, I don't think it should be as popular as the NFL.
Keeps some of the riff raff out of it, you know?

But the true answer is:
Not a lot of people play hockey.
Everyone can dabble in football or basketball if they'd like.
Not everyone has what it takes for hockey.
Take high school for example-
Anyone that wants to join the basketball or football teams there, can.
Hockey is the same, but you'd be an idiot to join up in high school.
It's a shame, but it's like that.
You'd hardly get any ice time, you'd be on the bench 99% of the time.
If you were to play, you'd probably just get in the way.
People like what they can associate to.
Not many hockey players = not many hockey fans.
Football and basketball are more common, more accessible, etc.
That's the reason people know and like them more.

My problem?
I'm learning.. now.. at 18.
But not in high school, where there is competition.
I've always really wanted to play, and so I will.
I'll also watch, so add a fan to your ranks.

Thank you, that is all.

PS- Why do people dislike Canadians?

Answer 3

What hockey lacks in fan numbers they make up in fan loyalty. Take a look at the figures following the strike season for baseball and football and you'll find that ticket sales plummeted. NHL made more than 30 million more than they even expected - and they put that money back into the sport. With the TV coverage slowly coming around in 4-5 years they may be back to the numbers they had in the premier years of the league.

Answer 4

I do. What I find funny is that the Super Bowl is the most watched sporting event in this country and the game almost always disappoints. Alot of people just watch for the commercials. And for some reason people in this country can't get into hockey, even though playoff hockey is, IMO, the most exciting sporting event to watch. I guess it can be explained by the fact that a show like American Idol gets a ton of ratings, shows the lack of taste by the american public.

And I'm an American

Answer 5

I CARE! In Canada. Hockey is WAY more promoted then those other 3. The NHL is a great league and hockey is a great sport. It involves skill, speed, toughness, balance and is completly unlike any other game. Why does everything HAVE to involve Americans. You make America look like a crappy country which I lived there for 5 years and isn't. I'm Canadian and love it. You don't have to like hockey, infact I have plenty of friends who don't but saying that the only place that matters is America is bullcrap. Stop being an arrogent panzy please.

Answer 6

That's because NBA sucks and they realize people would rather watch females play basket ball then the Knicks, MLB just have the same thing every year Yankees vs Red sox, NFL everybody didn't even realize the season ended that's why they need to promote it more and NHL had the cool Red Vs Black to get more fans but they only did that so if people didn't know that the Strike was over, So my friend Alot of people if not i know Alot more people the NBA watchers

Answer 7

I care and loads of people here in Vancouver are itching for the season to start. Personally, who cares if the majority of Americans don't like hockey, as long as enough regional markets stay or become strong? It wil always be a regional sport and that's fine by me. Big is not always better. In fact I'd love to see less teams and a much shorter regular season.

By the way, NHL does not have enough cash to promote it like the other big three sports. Whatever...all I know is Tampa Bay, Carolina, Coumbus and San Jose are new '90s markets that draw well.

Answer 8

the people that really matter, that is hilarious, i'm gonna just take maybe 5 to 10 minutes to laugh at what you just said about americans being the people that only matter, if it was me i'd rather keep hockey in canada, cuz americans don't appreciate the game, but u know i don't run the league i'm not the show runner. But it might as well stay in canada cuz america can't appreciate the game and yes i do play hockey, and i truly understand what a great game it is you don't even deserve hockey america.

Answer 9

you're right they dont promote it like the other sports, and you have to watch a tiny cable network to see a gema, but yet the sports keeps growing even without all the media..has more fan support the arenas are always filling up, and that was after a strike year...playoff hockey is the best playoff there is , they have so much more heart than the rest of the sports..and then when the series is over they shake hands still like real sports..game 7 of a hockey series is so much better than game 7 in Basketball or baseball

Answer 10

If you understand the game you care about hockey. The problem is that it is a great game where the majority of the NHL teams are in the large market areas of the US where they have no understanding of the science and strategies of the game. If you don't grow up loving the game and playing the game you'll never understand it. Summary - If you are a Canadian or an American who grew up in a northern state where hockey is played you care about the game. the game doesn't have to be promoted where it is appreciated. It sells itself.