Let's be real. Foreign basketball players are 1 or 2 % as opposed to UND with
13 of 20. When Americans play (ie Oylmpics) the American public gets excited.
Hockey's greatest moment in the US was the 1980 Olympics.
 
As more Americans enter the pro game the sport has become more popular south
of the 49th parallel while the NHL is not drawing the way it used to in
Canada. I mean for years the Expos wanted Canadian baseball players- nothing
wrong with that it is only natural.
 
Hockey would succeed at Rutgers (there are over 25 D1 players from NJ right
now) and at Penn State. It all comes down to promotion and selling the game.
It is not automatic- it takes hard work- but if you love the game you realize
the more exposure it gets the more people who were formerly indifferent love
the game.
 
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