What would it take for hockey to be America's most popular sport?

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Commercial breaks everytime the play is interrupted

Genocide

Probably the death of football because most Americans want at least one hard hitting sport outside of boxing/MMA. Also, more widespread college hockey across the US and by that I mean basically every FBS school needs to have a team.

Probably a new ice age. The weather in lots of places just suits other sports better. The places that are optimal for Hockey to be the most popular sport are already super into Hockey, although it's still usually surpassed by either football or baseball because they're traditions.

Hockey is a more interesting version of soccer and we still don't care for the most part. It'll rise as handegg declines and if cities want to start new franchises.

This. Half of the country doesn't even get ice to skate on therefore they have no interest in the sport.

You'd have to make the game a lot more accessible to kids, especially kids who's family can't afford to drop hundreds of dollars on decent skates, pads and sticks. The problem is I bet it would be like trying to suck blood from a stone trying to get schools and such to move money from Football to Hockey.

M U L T I B A L L

this
in canada we're lucky since theres dozens of foundation handing out equipement and money
not so much in the us

Commercialise it more.
Find more ways to prostitute the sports integrity. Americans love that

Lots of ice in the south.

All it takes to play football is a football and some space.

Hockey takes
>Ice thick enough to skate
>Puck
>Sticks
>Skates
>Pads

if SJW athletes keep popping up in the NFL,NBA, and MLB then Hockey will get a lot more popular at least with white males.

firt of all i cant see the puck. second of all theres not enough black players so theres no style to the game. niggas be all rigid and shit like Um it was a real team effort out there tonight. We have to come together and do it for the team. We are brothers out there in the rink haha its kinda gay

Trump-a-Lump endorsing Ovie and the Caps

1) free HDTVs for most of the country who still watches SDTV on their RCAs

2) White American superstars

3) the complete collapse of ESPN, Fox Sports, NFL, NBA, MLB, CBB, CFB, UFC and WWE

4) playing modern music in the arenas instead of dad rock.

a Christmas miracle

More black people

Shut the fuck up faggot

Hockey players never say this. All they ever say is "get pucks deep" and "get to loose pucks"

why?

Americans are cucks

Better marketing. I didn't even know people in America played hockey until I moved up north.

Except, we're not? Shit, the most racist white people are my family... I'm probably the "liberal" one who lives in the city and plays men's league