Ice no, field yes. At least here
I was in Buenos Aires and saw a hockey shop and I was like, whaaaat? Then I realized it was selling field hockey equipment. Most places I travel, if you talk about hockey it means field hockey, and you have to say “ice hockey” if that’s what you’re talking about.
Assuming you mean ice and not field, it’s not popular here in the UK with football (soccer) dominating but I’ve been to some local games, very fun to watch even though ofc the standard is pretty bad hah. One of the TV channels here used to show NA sports late at night so I got into NHL as a teen using my dad’s VHS player to record parts of games. I was the weird kid at school who used to bring in NHL 2001 or ESPN NHL Hockey on Xbox
Unfortunately I’m a Canucks fan lol, though I did catch Rangers-Blackhawks in 2015 at MSG when I visited NYC which was awesome!
Canucks fan
I see you enjoy pain.
Oh man, and then some. Promising playoff run season before last only to pretty much get kicked to the curb last season
Hello fellow British Canucks fan. I find the endless series of catastrophes punctuated by brief periods of (false) hope really chimes with life in modern Britain.
I’d say it’s about equally as popular as football (soccer for 'muricans) in Czechia and Slovakia. Those two are basically two top sports here/there. And I believe it’s clear number one sport in Sweden and Finland. And Russia.
Hockey requires manufactured ice.
Most of the world can’t make a suitable surface for most of the year.
Saskatchewan can make enough to field a whole league of players.
… You know field hockey is a thing?
