Ice Hockey: Finland, Sweden, Russia, Germany, Czechia, Switzerland
Ice no, field yes. At least here
But what is here?!
Netherlands
Hell, it’s barely “popular” outside of the Midwest, eh? 🤷🏽♂️
I’m in Canada, it’s pretty popular here
Y’all’re so keen on ice hockey, you even invented a version for the audiences at home to play in their driveways with a coupla brooms and a clothes-iron welded to a big-ass rock. 🤪
I was in Buenos Aires and saw a hockey shop and I was like, whaaaat? Then I realized it was selling field hockey equipment. Most places I travel, if you talk about hockey it means field hockey, and you have to say “ice hockey” if that’s what you’re talking about.
Switzerland:
- Ice Hockey on club level quite popular but not nearly as pupular as football. Specially on national team level: Our national team went on a tear this world cup and nobody cared until they reached the final. Meanwhile people cared more for the friendlies our national team in football played.
- Field Hockey: exists somewhere.
- Floorball / Unihockey: quite popular for playing it but no one watches it.
there’s a reason most nhl players are not from north america.
Where I’ve been to, not as popular. Nowhere near. But they still exist and have a following and national teams etc
It’s very popular in Europe
Assuming you mean ice and not field, it’s not popular here in the UK with football (soccer) dominating but I’ve been to some local games, very fun to watch even though ofc the standard is pretty bad hah. One of the TV channels here used to show NA sports late at night so I got into NHL as a teen using my dad’s VHS player to record parts of games. I was the weird kid at school who used to bring in NHL 2001 or ESPN NHL Hockey on Xbox
Unfortunately I’m a Canucks fan lol, though I did catch Rangers-Blackhawks in 2015 at MSG when I visited NYC which was awesome!
Hello fellow British Canucks fan. I find the endless series of catastrophes punctuated by brief periods of (false) hope really chimes with life in modern Britain.
