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Originally Posted by Street Pharmacist
It's never been a hockey city. It's far more multicultural than most Canadian cities and subsequently less fervent about Canadiana. We went to Chilliwack for a Bantam hockey tournament last year. That area serves over 100,000 people and only had 6 or 7 teams including all Rep teams. For reference, Kamloops serves about 80,000 and had 16 teams in bantam.
They just aren't a hockey or even sports mad city.
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Your second sentence is true and to an extent you are right about Vancouver not being a sports mad city.
However, your assessment of minor hockey in Vancouver is incorrect, your experience in Chilliwack notwithstanding. Minor hockey is alive and well in the Lower Mainland and Greater Vancouver produces more NHL players than Calgary (quite a few more, I would say without looking it up) and has done so for some time now.