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Too Much Money Going To USA Hockey
by Paul on 06/25/09 at 09:27 AM ET
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from Joe Pelletier’s Greatest Hockey Legends,
This past season the NHL committed to up to $8 million US of financial support directly to USA Hockey, who then administers it as they see fit. That’s up from $400,000 in 2005 and $1.2 million in 2008. The goal is to get more American players in the long term, in order to better stock and market American players in those non-traditional hockey markets.
Perhaps even the NHL is inspired by Barack Obama’s stimulus plans.
But the NHL is missing the boat is outside of the USA. You know, in the countries that actually produce most of the players in the league - Canada and the European countries, especially in Russia and the Czech Republic, where hockey at the grassroots level is potentially about to face dark days.
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