To all my australian friends. What is the status of the NHL and are there may fans?

Question

And is there a pro ice hockey league in Australia. Cause that would be a cool place to play hockey. If were to randomely go through australia and ask random people about the Stanley Cup how may out of a hundred would know the answer. Hypthetically ofcourse since i can't exaclty fly over there myself right now and find out

Answer 1

No Sparky, unfortunately there is no Ice Hockey in Australia. No NHL games are shown on free to air TV, but Foxtel (pay TV) shows 2 games a week during the season.

Here in Aussieland, our most popular sports are Australian rules football, soccer, cricket & rugby league. I'd hate to admit it, but in my opinion there would only be around 1-2 out of 300 people that would actually be a true fan of an NHL team. Shame, because it's a bloody GREAT sport!!

To answer your question, around 1 person out of 70 or 80 would know about the Stanley Cup.

Answer 2

My bf is an Aussie who loves hockey. Though he only became really interested when he moved to Canada about 6 years ago.

I'm actually surprised as to how many Aussie hockey fans there are, I met 2 on myspace in the last year, and one of my bf's friends in Australia is a Toronto fan, married a lady from Toronto (even they have fun fighting over the Habs and the leafs lol)