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Originally Posted by esquire
No matter how you slice it, hockey is going to be a huge commitment of time, energy and money. And you have to start young and continue up the ranks. Not a lot of immigrant families will have the inclination to put up with all that. So naturally the immigrant kids will gravitate to pick up basketball or soccer where all you need is shoes and a ball, and then end up on school teams with the skills they gained that way. And not surprisingly, it ends up creating lifelong fans along the way.
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OTOH, i've seen immigrant families (who can afford it) put their children into hockey because they think that's the pinnacle of being Canadian. Often it seems like these immigrants are more Canadian than whatever Canadians they think they're emulating. Hockey's problem is that it's so prohibitively expensive.
Soccer and basketball benefit from being cheap and easy and relatively injury-free.
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Originally Posted by Acajack
Then get inevitably replaced with the next ill-fated Canadian league a few years later.
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NBL Canada is just finishing its seventh season. It's not the world's best basketball but it hasn't faded away like most thought it would.
