Canadian cities or American Sport cities?

[pbhockey4 0]

Which one is more passionate about hockey. For example Montreal just has hockey as their main pro sport while Boston has sports year round. Which one is more passionate about hockey?

[goaliemanshark 6]

Uh. Canada.

Duh.

If you need proof, look at ticket prices.

[17D1998 1]

The answer is so obvious. I recall Patrice Bergeron saying that in Boston, the Bruins are even less popular than college football. Of course that was a few years ago, now everybody must have jumped in the bandwagon ahah

[sheffy 0]

toronto has professional sports year round and the maple leafs makes more than triple the amount of all the pro teams

[chippa13 1844]

The answer is so obvious. I recall Patrice Bergeron saying that in Boston, the Bruins are even less popular than college football. Of course that was a few years ago, now everybody must have jumped in the bandwagon ahah

The Bruins may have been but hockey was. You have to remember, in Boston there is still a lot of people who hate Jacobs and they definitely aren't going to fill his pockets when the B's aren't living up to expectations. Not to mention, there are so many other hockey options in the Boston area that a fan of the sport can always find a quality team to watch. And then you've got the three other teams in the area that have had some recent success when the B's were flopping in the early playoff rounds. You'd have a hard time getting a Boston sports fan to spend their money on an underachieving Bruins team instead of a championship Sox or Patriots team.

The Garden being filled these days is not with bandwagon fans but with the fans that last year's Bruins team won back.

[flyers10 57]

It is hard for some US cities to ever achieve as much passion since they offer so many choices to their residents. A big US city that has professional hockey, football, basketball, baseball, soccer, women's basketball, college football, etc has almost too many choices fighting for the same fan interest and dollar.

[mnpucker 33]

Ok I will bite. In minnesota, We have more arenas per capita, more players than any state and countless backyard and outdoor rinks. Put it this way, we have basketball teams but all those people WISH they could skate. High school hockey is big (boys and girls). We have 5 major d1 NCAA teams (men's and women's) all sellout their venues regularly. We sell out the excel energy center on a regular basis even though there are probably another 100,000 more people watching or driving their children and youth and high school practices/games across the state.

On any given night excel can be sold out 19,000+ and 10 miles away the U of Mn is a sell out at the same time 10,000+ oh an d those people are still driving their kids to their own hockey events.. Heck, talk to sales reps and they will tell you there is more gear sold in mn than most of the country, I know I buy it!

All that and NFL is still king, unfortunately.

[DigDug 5]

Not sure why. Football is the oppsite of hockey - near constant play stoppages. Play duration is les than 5 seconds. Its nice to watch with some fellas over an pizza, but then what isnt?

[skyscrape 5]

Not sure why. Football is the oppsite of hockey - near constant play stoppages. Play duration is les than 5 seconds. Its nice to watch with some fellas over an pizza, but then what isnt?

Football is easier to watch as background noise. Plus most women don't typically want to watch it, so a lot of married men view it as an out during the winter. Plus it is on a couple days a week vs. just about every night. When I watch a hockey game I sit down and get into it. People start talking you miss great plays. Much faster but needs way more attention in my opinion. To me it has nothing to do with the sport being better. It is just tradition for a good chunk of men.

[Chadd 916]

Not sure why. Football is the oppsite of hockey - near constant play stoppages. Play duration is les than 5 seconds. Its nice to watch with some fellas over an pizza, but then what isnt?

That all makes it a great TV sport or one for viewing in groups.

[BoDangles 0]

For hockey specifically, Canadian cities, but when it comes to overall sport cities, there are a lot in the US that have them beat.

[greech 4]

Boston's always been a hockey town- but to echo chippa- there were a lot of people who felt management of the bruins did not put a product on the ice worthy of the fan's support and financial burden. It turned a lot of people off, people like my father who vividly remembers the Bobby Orr days yet wrote off the team in the last decade due to management's vision, but the hockey support was still there. Anyone who questions that can spend a weekend here in February or March. You can spend a weekend going from high school hockey playoffs drawing 2,500 in the afternoon, to well-attended NCAA D1 games by the handful or the Bruins by night. Not to mention rinks packed with youth, Junior and adult hockey all week. The game is well here, but the surge in Bruins' support does not mean that the game had left the town.