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Originally Posted by dubc80
My brother was at the game last night. He's in Toronto for work, paid $25USD off Stubhub for his ticket.
Said the atmosphere was similar to an NHL regular season game.
Do people even care about this tournament?
How are merch sales? Now that I think of it, I haven't seen anyone wearing the new Team Canada jersey. I remember tons of people buying and wearing the 2010 and 2014 Canada Olympic jerseys.
How is tv viewership?
How was attendance/viewership in bars? Where is the Molson Canadian Hockey House?!?!
Most hockey fans I know did watch, but wasn't as invested as the Olympics. They have a long ways to go to make this the premiere best-on-best tournament in my opinion.
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This generation has been spoiled by Olympic hockey so it'll extremely difficult to reboot this event. People loved the NA team though so that worked but might make NHLs decisions harder going forward.