Hockey is growing little by little in Hong Kong now, ever since the sons of several rich Business Person studied in North and got hooked on the sport of hockey... I still haven't seen any hockey equipment stores there... but I'll be there could be some very soon (last time I went back was last november)... something relatively new like that could really intrigue the Asian culture
Though weird, when Wayne Gretzky retired, the HK televisions announced it as well... surely no one knew of him in the Asian countries... at least very few people
I think there are more than 2 rinks in HK... but not ALL of them have nets and lines... there are probably more now, I lived there til I was 10 and there wasn't too many back then.
I'll go check things out in June since I'm going back to HK... need to renew my HK Residence ID, maybe I'll see a miracle like u jonesy.
On a side note: I found out that this one guy on a cultural forum (no name) tried out for the Vancouver Giants, who was originally from HK, he was on their protected list the first time around and was with the team in Moncton for the Memorial Cup. Then, earlier this year, he tried out again but got injured, and now plays for UBC I believe.
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