Why canadians love hockey

While in the neighboring USA football and basketball are reigning supreme, in Canada hockey is life. Why is Canada so obsessed with this combative sport? One thing is for certain, Canadians are really good at ice hockey. Historically they are one of the top teams in the world, something their record 13 gold medals in the Olympics proves.

With so much success on an international level, young Canadians are inspired to pick up the sport to emulate their Olympic heroes. It helps that the greatest ever player to step onto the ice, Wayne Gretzky, is Canadian. The circumstances that the weather brings to many Canadians has made the population adjust their sporting interests to their situation.

But if the sport has to be only cold, why does it have to be hockey? Why not be curling, skiing, snowboarding, etc.? Hockey was one of the first sports where Canadian teams were involved in a league that included both American and Canadian teams.

Two of the first six NHL teams that were founded in the early 20th century were Canadian. The game is also relatively easy to understand rather than some other sports where the objective of the game can be peculiar.

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The only time I have seen Canadians absolutely swagger is when they are winning at hockey. The failure in Nagano reverberated across the entire country, with the reasons debated in local bars and the House of Commons resulting in a landmark Hockey Summit that dissected every aspect of the game from the grassroots to the NHL. Canadians feel pride and accomplishment through hockey.