Word: nhl
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...people of Canada have sounded the death knell for the NHL in their country...
Maybe the popular reaction was a realization that the NHL simply isn't Canadian hockey anymore. The pond in the backyard is a good metaphor. Winter was already freezing, and it just took someone to run the garden hose a little for there...
...NHL no longer is a larger version of the local neighborhood. Increasingly, the players don't hail from the Great North. The best player in the game right now, Jaromir Jagr, hails from the Czech Republic. The hottest player in the league right now, Patrik Elias, is also from there...
...Montreal Gazette printed the following editorial in response to this trend in the Canadian sport: "The public is increasingly fed up with the mediocre NHL product, the high ticket prices, and the bloated player salaries. It would be hard to think of a more undeserving recipient of taxpayer charity...
Undeserving indeed. As the NHL prospers, the taxpayers of Canada have decided that they will settle for whatever team can survive...