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If hockey isn't around anymore, where will Canadians fight? Also, the video only talks about the costs of training for professional hockey vs other sports, not the cost of watching it or playing pick-up games.
If a hockey stick costs 1000% to 1200% what it used to, then that's definitely going to affect pick-up games. Particularly with how often these things break (I don't know how junior league teams afford it). Statistic per the video. Also per the video, the cost of sports equipment in general has decreased by 25% over the same time period. I don't blame you if you didn't watch a 20+ minute video straight through and mi…
Inflation adjusted, that's a decrease in price, in line with other sports. I don't blame you, if you're only going off the video's selective sources, but there's much more to reality, as revealed by a quick web search.
Also, getting hockey players for Canada's Olympic team isn't that difficult, they just get their players to take a break from the US teams they normally play on, to play for the team Canada.