Hockey has had a Deep Impact on Canada

       Canada's greatest and most wide reaching export, hockey cannot be ignored in Canada, whether one appreciates the game or not. There are outdoor and indoor rinks in every community across the country and there is also year round-media coverage of hockey. How does hockey connect to Canada today and how did it have such a significant impact on the country?

       According to the Paul Martin website, a website that writes about sports, social media, and the basic things in life, hockey has left a very big impact on Canada. We know this website is reliable because Paul Martin is Development Coordinator at MacEwan University.


                                    http://www.paulwmartin.ca/

      Hockey is the game that makes a nation just as much as it may be a game the nation made. It has helped us develop in lots of different ways.                                                                                      I agree with this because research shows over 500,000 children, woman, and men are are registered each year in organized hockey in Canada. Also at the professional level, Canadians still make up over 50% of players in the NHL, more than two and a half times the number of American players in the league.  What makes that number even more extraordinary is that Canada has only one-tenth the population of the USA.


     There is a lot at stake in Canada’s claim to be the “first nation of hockey"                                I agree with this statement because You’ll see the words “it’s our game” in everything from commercials for beer and Tim Hortons to school textbooks. Also the notion that hockey and Canada are equal parts of one another helps advertisers, the sport of hockey in Canada, and broadcasters trying to increase their audience numbers.

Source: http://www.paulwmartin.ca/courses/hockey-and-canadian-literature/hockey-and-canadian-culture

FUTURE RESEARCH: What are the demographics of professional hockey players? Why are certain races/ethnicities represented more in professional hockey?