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A Whole New Game

- Economics, Politics, and the Transformation of the Business of Hockey in Canada
Af: Neil Longley Engelsk Hardback

A Whole New Game

- Economics, Politics, and the Transformation of the Business of Hockey in Canada
Af: Neil Longley Engelsk Hardback
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Hockey used to be Canada’s game. What happened? A renowned sports expert details the sellout of a sport Canada once dominated to big-money U.S. corporatization and enumerates the effects, including declining amateur participation and audience size.

Hockey is still Canada’s most popular spectator sport. Yet, many fans question how organized hockey serves the country of its origin as they watch the NHL expand ever deeper into an indifferent American south, taking the best young Canadian talent and leaving major Canadian markets in Québec, the Maritimes and the Prairies in the cold. Minor hockey, once the pride of smaller communities, now serves as a brutal corporate feeder system for the NHL, treating underpaid teenagers like chattel, often shipping players as young as fourteen far away from their homes and families on short notice. Neil Longley contrasts the current state of the game with the way it was before the expansion era, when hockey teams were nurtured and supported at the community level, a system still practiced in much of Europe. In one of the most perceptive and authoritative analyses yet written on modern hockey history, Professor Longley finds no magic formula for putting heart and local pride back in Canada’s game, but makes a strong case for placing today’s corporate system “in a more realistic, less-Disneyfied, less sanitized, context.”

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Hockey used to be Canada’s game. What happened? A renowned sports expert details the sellout of a sport Canada once dominated to big-money U.S. corporatization and enumerates the effects, including declining amateur participation and audience size.

Hockey is still Canada’s most popular spectator sport. Yet, many fans question how organized hockey serves the country of its origin as they watch the NHL expand ever deeper into an indifferent American south, taking the best young Canadian talent and leaving major Canadian markets in Québec, the Maritimes and the Prairies in the cold. Minor hockey, once the pride of smaller communities, now serves as a brutal corporate feeder system for the NHL, treating underpaid teenagers like chattel, often shipping players as young as fourteen far away from their homes and families on short notice. Neil Longley contrasts the current state of the game with the way it was before the expansion era, when hockey teams were nurtured and supported at the community level, a system still practiced in much of Europe. In one of the most perceptive and authoritative analyses yet written on modern hockey history, Professor Longley finds no magic formula for putting heart and local pride back in Canada’s game, but makes a strong case for placing today’s corporate system “in a more realistic, less-Disneyfied, less sanitized, context.”

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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 256
ISBN-13: 9781771623803
Indbinding: Hardback
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ISBN-10: 1771623802
Kategori: Ishockey
Udg. Dato: 30 maj 2024
Længde: 23mm
Bredde: 163mm
Højde: 236mm
Forlag: Douglas & McIntyre
Oplagsdato: 30 maj 2024
Forfatter(e): Neil Longley
Forfatter(e) Neil Longley

Kategori Ishockey

ISBN-13 9781771623803

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Hardback

Sider 256

Udgave

Længde 23mm

Bredde 163mm

Højde 236mm

Udg. Dato 30 maj 2024

Oplagsdato 30 maj 2024

Forlag Douglas & McIntyre

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