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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
There's a world of difference between seeing a player go to a league in a neighbouring country where every game is broadcast in your language, than see them go halfway around the world to play in a league you're unlikely to get any television coverage of, and if you do that coverage is in another language.
You're kidding yourself if you honestly don't think Canadians would be ticked off to see Crosby, Toews, Doughty, Price, etc. play in Russia, where we could watch maybe one game a week on a specialty euro sports channel, broadcast at 3 am in Russian.
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Yes they would. But the anger would be directed toward the NHL for letting the league falter to the point that good players would head to another country to play.
And if all good Canadian players went over to play in Russia... they would start broadcasting games here in English... just like in soccer where we can watch games from all the good leagues in English. If there's a market for it someone is going to show it.