The truth of the matter is that Canada will always be a hockey country and will be considered one of the top Dogs in the world but if they keep losing and don't step up their game they will eventually go on the decline and lose some fans. Just like the maple leafs people will stop giving a crap about Canada, for teams to hype themselves up they need to produce results. If Canada's Junior hockey team does not produce results next year (Gold) the nation will be devastated. And it is inevitable that with upset fans that things like jersey's and merchandise sales will go down. That will affect those people who ride of the athletes to make money in their own pockets. Those same people who ride of the athlete will then treat the athletes the way their profits are building up, poorly. The better an athlete or team does, the more money it tends to make which makes the owners happy and in return they award their prize possessions which are the athletes and teams. It is a circle of some sort in the sports business, what goes around comes around. BANG BANG
Saturday, 5 January 2013
Canada Loses in Junior Hockey Championships
A lot of disappointed Canadian fans today as the Canadian junior hockey team had lost to a 6-5 game to Russia in overtime for bronze. Not only losing to Russia was an upset, but also losing to the United States in the semi-finals in which the score was 5-1 where the winner would go onto facing Sweden in the championship. Canada was thought to be a hockey super power and the best country for ice hockey at least it looks like now that other countries have stepped their game up as well. Canada is known to be a hockey super power but the truth is that is not the case any more because other countries have been beating Canada lately. Its not that Canada is a bad team its just that all the other countries around the world are getting that much better. If Canada wants to reclaimed its superiority they need to make some serious changes and look back at the drawing board and fix the errors in its hockey program, especially the coaches. Many criticize at the defense Canada was playing especially against the U.S in their 5-1 loss. It was the most embarrassing game for the Canadian juniors since a game in 1998. Many fans were also looking forward for Canada to take it since the World Juniors Championship is the highest level of hockey being played right now since the NHL is in lockout season. Canadians wake up at ridiculous times just to see our boys in action and sadly "for what to see our buts getting kicked?" Not to take anything away from the boys their Bronze medal match was a thriller in a very close game against Russia which went to overtime. Unfortunately Russia came with that point both teams needed badly, it could have gotten either way. This was the first time since 1998 that Canada left the Junior Championships with no hardware. Needless to say it was a decent outing especially in the round robin portion of the tournament where they skated through everyone put in front of them. Canada was a Junior phenom between the years of 2005-2009 where they claimed nothing but gold, but in recent years Canada has no answer for all the countries stepping it up. In 2010 and 2011 Canada ended up with silvers and 2012 with a bronze and now in 2013 nothing. But because of how impressively some of the individual players played in the games the end result probably won't affect their future promising careers because many NHL recruits seen potential stars within some of the players of Team Canada. But the way Canada's hockey program is shaping out it needs more work because Canada is not the super power but only one of the super powers in a list of 4 joined with the United States, Russia and Sweden. Needless to say Canada hopefully will be back to reclaim a dominating Juniors run they had in 05-09 but at the end of the day if anyone criticizes Canada as being a bad hockey nation, we still have the Olympic title and that is all that matters.
The truth of the matter is that Canada will always be a hockey country and will be considered one of the top Dogs in the world but if they keep losing and don't step up their game they will eventually go on the decline and lose some fans. Just like the maple leafs people will stop giving a crap about Canada, for teams to hype themselves up they need to produce results. If Canada's Junior hockey team does not produce results next year (Gold) the nation will be devastated. And it is inevitable that with upset fans that things like jersey's and merchandise sales will go down. That will affect those people who ride of the athletes to make money in their own pockets. Those same people who ride of the athlete will then treat the athletes the way their profits are building up, poorly. The better an athlete or team does, the more money it tends to make which makes the owners happy and in return they award their prize possessions which are the athletes and teams. It is a circle of some sort in the sports business, what goes around comes around. BANG BANG
The truth of the matter is that Canada will always be a hockey country and will be considered one of the top Dogs in the world but if they keep losing and don't step up their game they will eventually go on the decline and lose some fans. Just like the maple leafs people will stop giving a crap about Canada, for teams to hype themselves up they need to produce results. If Canada's Junior hockey team does not produce results next year (Gold) the nation will be devastated. And it is inevitable that with upset fans that things like jersey's and merchandise sales will go down. That will affect those people who ride of the athletes to make money in their own pockets. Those same people who ride of the athlete will then treat the athletes the way their profits are building up, poorly. The better an athlete or team does, the more money it tends to make which makes the owners happy and in return they award their prize possessions which are the athletes and teams. It is a circle of some sort in the sports business, what goes around comes around. BANG BANG
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LOL good post even tho this doesn't relate to International business too much. I would categorize this more as a sports article rather than a business one :P
ReplyDeleteAnyways, I would say that this lost in the Junior Hockey Championships could potentially cause Canada to loose a few fans? There will still be people enjoying hockey but if Canada doesn't step up their game and keep loosing, then the sports industry in Canada would suffer because they would loose fans and thus loose sales on the tickets, ratings, fan support, etc.
lol...yea, not too much "business talk" in this article. Any thoughts on how this might relate? The junior championships were held in Russia and thus time zone differentials were large as games were played in the middle of the night or early morning. Despite this, there was some news publications of some surprising results with respect to ratings. Try googling them and make note of how this was positive or negative for media outlets such as TSN or Sportsnet (and their subsequent profits). BANG BANG
ReplyDeleteI think this was just a fun article that Ankush did xD. Well we should be proud that we are called one of the strongest hockey teams in the world. Though we are known to be thus we should show our dominance by upholding what the title implies. With our economy really strong we should get strong members in our hockey teams(to be honest are all of our members Canadian?). Business may be shown through as deepak says the loss of big games, resulting in low profits for sales on merchandises and tickets for the games.
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