Why Did Hockey Get So Popular?
Marta Lind
2025-06-11 15:46:31
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The national team sensationally made its way to the Ice Hockey World Championship, which was held in 2019. The UK guaranteed their participation in the championship, taking first place in the first division tournament in 2018. The British participated in the World Cup for the first time since 1994. EIHL is actively promoting ice hockey through television channels. EIHL actively promotes itself on the Internet and such popular social networks as Instagram, Twitter and Facebook, gaining tens of thousands of subscribers. At the same time, British developers are actively creating games dedicated to hockey.
Desiree Hansen
2025-06-04 19:36:14
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Ice hockey is clearly more visible to the masses with huge television coverage across the globe. The NHL makes it easy for spectators to tune in and for betting companies to increase the sport’s popularity.
With TV deals comes revenue for the league, which means the best players in the game all flock to the USA and Canada rather than top leagues in countries who pay smaller wages. The pace of the game is a key differential with ice hockey played at a frenetic pace. Players will also experience a brute physicality (that’s why they wear so much protective padding) which isn’t experienced by their field-based equivalents.
Elissa Stokes
2025-05-22 18:01:39
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Increased visibility.
The EIHL, however, has become one of the most accessible top-flight sports leagues in Great Britain.
FreeSports is available on Freeview, Freesat, TalkTalk, BT, Virgin TV, and Sky, making it the perfect channel to bolster the home-viewing figures of an emerging sports league like the EIHL.
The channel shows midweek and weekend games of ice hockey, meaning that anyone with an interest can easily see the sport unravel live whenever they wish.
Gaming is wildly popular in the UK, and giving people access to ice hockey-themed games will only help to harness potential fandom of the sport.
Ice hockey in the UK has earned a lot of attention of late, with the premier story being the Great Britain team making it to the top flight of World Championships ice hockey in 2018.
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