J17 Vs Proclamation
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I think you've missed the point, the guy asked "Does the average UK citizen know what hockey actually is" and the answer to that is yes. It doesn't matter how much they know about it, they still know what it is.
Then maybe you and i have different definitions of know.
Hockey is there in popular culture, mostly in films (even if it's not specifically about hockey). When the mighty ducks movies came out they were very popular among 90's children such as myself, I did see them before I ever became remotely interested in hockey. Hockey was once featured on a Top Gear episode. Goon was shown in UK cinemas. Games always used to be on EuroSport and the Olympics were on BBC. The Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash got a considerable amount of news coverage here the day it happened.
It's barely there. A film made 20+ years ago. Really ....
Hockey was once featured in a Top Gear episode ... It wasn't exactly hockey.
The Olympics were on the BBC and guess what, Olympic hockey is one of the main events, and the final is played on the last day, a day most other things are finished.
Yes, hockey appears in the media infrequently, and yes hockey appears in US shows that are appearing here, but it's absurd to say it has any obvious popular culture steam or much of anything in the mainstream media.
The Loko crash recieved much attention because it is an absolute tragedy. A whole team dies in an unusual plane crash ... of course it will hit the headlines. The crash has absolutely nothing do with hockey and everything to do with 40+ men dying. The fact that they were hockey players is almost inconsequential. Really really pulling at straws.
It's true the British game gets little to no exposure but the sport as a whole does.
It really really doesn't.