some one told me they don't care about hockey in Norway I don't get it dos it not get cold there
2007-05-06 18:12:24 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Sports ➔ Hockey
they also care about skiing and the "other football".
but hockey is big there too.
2007-05-07 01:04:26 · answer #1 · answered by blackhawks4life 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hockey is a marginal sport in Norway. I think they have one NHL player. Hockey is big in Sweden and Finland though.
Traditionally they are more into skiing and soccer. Soccer has far most people playing and watching. There's hardly anything on the TV from the hockey league or NHL, but they will send matches from the olympics/World Cup in Norway.
EDIT: Here's the list over the most popular sports in Norway: Icehockey is number 21.
1. Soccer 305594
2. Skiing 126153
3. Light excercise 118581
4. Golf 84441
5. Handball 72832
6. Gymnastics 67172
7. Athletics 54614
8. Hiking 51250
9. Swimming 30631
10. Skates 28827
11. Orienteering 28142
12. Volleyball 23723
13. Studentsports 23363
14. Sailing 22387
15. Riding 22303
16. Dance 21620
17. Combatsports 19183
18. Tennis 17706
19. Basketball 11976
20. Air-sports 11420
21. Icehockey 10993
2007-05-07 13:35:28 · answer #2 · answered by pulsi 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hockey is popular. But like many countries, including the US, they don't care about it because they are no good at it. And that could be mostly because of a small population.
They are 3rd out of 4 Scandinavian countries. Gee, actually 4th out of 4 this year.
In the current 16 country World Championships, where many other countries have players missing because they were still playing in the Stanley Cup. Norway finished 15 out of 16. Beating only Austria. Latvia, Ukraine, Denmark, Germany and Italy finished ahead of them.
If I was from Norway and talking to you, I'd say we didn't care about hockey too. Saves embarrassment.
2007-05-07 17:26:26 · answer #3 · answered by JuanB 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
holy hell they care alot about hockey. any of those country's, sweden, finland, norway, russia all of them care about hockey and alot of nhl players are of those countries.
2007-05-06 18:18:52 · answer #4 · answered by rocketpastsix 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There are probably more nhl players from norway than from the us
2007-05-07 01:40:28 · answer #5 · answered by none 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yeah they do care about hockey... isnt it scandinavia? alot of people in scandinavia play hockey
2007-05-06 18:18:14 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋