MarylandNed

The 2 year anniversary just passed. Why has this only got 35,000 views?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1ns63s9i3k

Oh Canada!

dbd33

This is the first I've heard of Sidney Crosby and his golden goal. Good for him, I suppose.

Piff Poff

+1

Tangram

+2

Novocastrian

I didn't even know he plays football.

MarylandNed

What a bunch of saddos!

Novocastrian

Jeez. OK, who's going to win Stanley's Cup?

It's about time we Canadians took this shit seriously.

el_richo

Aren't you American?

Is he related to Bill?

macadian

If I had a spare quarter, I would donate it to you in the event you might want to call someone who you feel might care....

BristolUK

I have zero interest in Ice Hockey. Okay, it must be zero +1 or something because I watched that final. Was it really two years ago?

He captained Canada to world Championships. I saw that on the front page of the Montreal Gazette years ago. You'd really have to go some not to have heard of him. Probably a conscious effort to avoid it would be needed.

dbd33

To the contrary, most people in the world have not heard of him. If we look at someone of a similar stature in the UK, Jockie Wilson for example, he was "world famous" in the north but virtually unknown outside of the country. You'd have to have a specific interest in iced hockey to know the players, other than those prominent in brand promotion such as Tim Horton or Wayne Gratzky.

Now, if was the captain of a Canadian team in a world sport, and football's the obvious one, he'd be as famous as, well, a famous footballer. Someone like Posh's husband or one of those mononomic Brazilians.

Souvy

My neighbour's daughter met Beckham in LA a few days ago. I'll be keeping an eye on the daughter. If she does well in the games, I'll be getting business cards out.

Piff Poff

Why? Because we don't follow hockey?

I have heard of Crosby, I know he plays hockey, he also advertises bread, its the same as I have heard of Lineker, I know he used to play football and now he advertises crisps.

JamesM

Didn't it pass over a month ago?

And hasn't Sidney Crosby spent the majority of time since then sitting on a bench with concussion?

If Hockey wants to grow it's popularity and have more people watch it on YouTube- they need to clean up the neanderthal parts of the game.

iaink

Or accentuate them. MMA seems very popular...

Why must expats pretend they know nothing about hockey? Sure, we dont have to embrace it, but you seriously have to be living under a rock to not know about Crosby and or Olympic Hockey gold.