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Originally Posted by heep223
True but population growth has been like 98% immigration for some time now. Most immigrants from non hockey cultures
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Even if none of them played (obviously silly because I'm sure at least some do) you'd still expect the number to be around 0, not -21%. Unless there has been a significant shift to these private leagues that are unaccounted for.
I'm guessing it's a matter of cost and other things like video games competing for kids' attention.