tomf
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- Apr 13, 2007
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Also if we are talking talent pools:
There were 97 players in 1967 that have played at least half of the season (35 games). The talent pool was basically Canada population (20 mil at that time if wikipedia is correct ).
There were 579 players in 2010 with half of season played (41 games). Now when estimating talent pool it gets tricky:
CAN: 34 mil
USA: 30 mil (308 mil and let's say that every 10th american is aware that there is that cool sport called hockey)
SWE: 8 mil
FIN: 5 mil
CZE: 10 mil
SVK: 5 mil
RUS: 28 mil (143 mil, be a little pesimistic and say that access is quite bad and all of that = 20%)
That's 120 mil and I wasn't counting Ukraine, Belarus and other countries in that pool. I am aware that it's not that simple but I think it is a good rough estimate.
There were 97 players in 1967 that have played at least half of the season (35 games). The talent pool was basically Canada population (20 mil at that time if wikipedia is correct ).
There were 579 players in 2010 with half of season played (41 games). Now when estimating talent pool it gets tricky:
CAN: 34 mil
USA: 30 mil (308 mil and let's say that every 10th american is aware that there is that cool sport called hockey)
SWE: 8 mil
FIN: 5 mil
CZE: 10 mil
SVK: 5 mil
RUS: 28 mil (143 mil, be a little pesimistic and say that access is quite bad and all of that = 20%)
That's 120 mil and I wasn't counting Ukraine, Belarus and other countries in that pool. I am aware that it's not that simple but I think it is a good rough estimate.