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<blockquote data-quote="SelimNiai" data-source="post: 501571" data-attributes="member: 37756"><p>Apart from the established European markets, Sweden, Finland, Czech Rep., Russia etc who have the talented player pool to choose from that's the same everywhere. There's also the question of the sports popularity in the country. Germany, I imagine, rate football, motorsport and putting towels on sunbeds as more popular sports than hockey. Worse in the UK, I could name at least 10 sports more popular than hockey here. With that you have to attract foreigners to play to at least try to develop the game</p><p></p><p>This argument fits every sport pretty much. The amount of good foreign imports increases popularity and short term talent in detriment to youth development who can't get in the team. You restrict the amount of imports and the leagues suffer in drop of intrest.</p><p></p><p>In the EIHL here there are typically a lot of Americans and Canadians but most have been here for a while, Brad Voth for example has played for Cardiff Devils for 6 or 7 seasons so is almost a Brit in that respect.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SelimNiai, post: 501571, member: 37756"] Apart from the established European markets, Sweden, Finland, Czech Rep., Russia etc who have the talented player pool to choose from that's the same everywhere. There's also the question of the sports popularity in the country. Germany, I imagine, rate football, motorsport and putting towels on sunbeds as more popular sports than hockey. Worse in the UK, I could name at least 10 sports more popular than hockey here. With that you have to attract foreigners to play to at least try to develop the game This argument fits every sport pretty much. The amount of good foreign imports increases popularity and short term talent in detriment to youth development who can't get in the team. You restrict the amount of imports and the leagues suffer in drop of intrest. In the EIHL here there are typically a lot of Americans and Canadians but most have been here for a while, Brad Voth for example has played for Cardiff Devils for 6 or 7 seasons so is almost a Brit in that respect. [/QUOTE]
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