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Hockey barbaric?
With all the recent hulabaloo over the Chris Simon incident, I'd like to take the temperature of the Americans in the room as regards the sport of pro ice hockey.
There seems to be a belief at NHL headquarters in NY, NY that it is only a matter of time until pro hockey is truly a North America wide success on a par with the NFL, MLB, etc. However, it seems to me that hockey is regarded as at best a fringe sport in may areas of the USA and is viewed as a kind of glorified wrassling on ice.
To most Canadians the NHL is, by far, THE major sport and that's fine. We all grow up playing it and watching it. In the US northeast the game is and has always been very popular. I don't understand why the powers that be can't live with the fact that people from more southerly climes are unlikely to become big fans seeing as A) They did not grow up skating and B) Their major exposure to the game comes when something like the recent Simon incident happens.
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