Hockey Belongs to Canada

Ice hockey is Canada’s national sport, and the country was the birthplace of the modern NHL: the league did not add its first American team until 1924, its eighth season.  Following years when the league’s center of gravity has been drifting north, global economic trends could soon push hockey’s best players away from the country where they are most beloved.

According to the The Economist website, hockey is Canada's national and modern sport so it means way more to their country than any of the others.  We know this website is very reliable because it is used by many people and speaks the truth always when talking about sports.


                                                 http://www.economist.com/

     Hockey the cold-weather sport has been brought into warmer climates, creating teams or moving existing ones to San Jose, Tampa Bay, Anaheim, Miami, Dallas, Phoenix, Raleigh, Nashville and Atlanta. However, in many of these cities, the game has failed to take root.
 I agree with this statement because I once lived in Atlanta Georgia and I went to all of the Atlanta Thrashers games but sadly not many other people did so that ended up causing Atlanta to have to move their NHL team to Canada because their organization wasn't making enough money to keep it themselves.

   The decline in the Canadian dollar will put American teams in a stronger position to sign elite players, and will probably cause talent to migrate in the medium term. 
  I also agree with this because like most professional athletes, they go where the money is at and if one team has a better offer than the other, they usually don't care about moving because they need to make as much money as they can since a player isn't in their prime during their whole entire career. 

Source: http://www.economist.com/blogs/gametheory/2015/01/currency-and-ice-hockey