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Originally Posted by PeteMoss
I'm not sure this is true (well the unmarketable/unprofitable stuff, the rest is just classic drive-by which doesn't seem to matter to college sports in the US or junior hockey in Canada which clearly isn't top level either). Canada and the US national teams play each other and can draw crowds (they sold out their game in London I believe) which was just a random game, not part of any competition. Those games can also get reasonable tv ratings.
Perhaps you just do a 4 team league so you have just the elite players and the teams all have 4-5 players everyone knows.
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Not sure what part you are saying "isn't true". In Calgary are ther are 20 or so other hockey teams (Flames, Hitmen, Dino's, Cougars, SAIT, Mustnags, Canucks, JR B, AMHL) you could watch which are better hockey then the Inferno. To say it is such good hockey (which you didn't but so many casual hockey fans do) is completely false. The Canada/ USA games, which are pretty good hockey, are NOT the same as a 6 team league (which is competing for players with another league) when it comes to competition level, skill and marketability.
Now in a less politically correct society they could market the attractive ladies, and play full contact hockey, add pyro, add gimmicks and over the top announcers. Like the WWE does with their females. Talk is the ladies triple threat match will be headlining Wrestlemania.
For those wanting to inspire young hockey players, the Women's World Championships are starting soon and TSN will be broadcasting the games, set you PVR's.