Hockey's Future: Decline or Rebound?
Hector Collins
2025-06-05 08:56:21
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The United States has experienced steady growth in the sport over the past decade while Canada grapples with youth numbers declining significantly over the same period of time. Efforts by USA Hockey, National Hockey League teams and others to bring in more diverse families — and a boom especially in girls participation — have fueled the increase and opened the door for the U.S. to one day overtake its neighbor to the north as the game's preeminent power. Two years ago marked the first time the U.S. had more youth hockey players registered than Canada. The latest figure reported by USA Hockey was 387,910 in 2022-23 — up from just under 340,000 in 2009-10 and outpacing Canada's 360,031.
Cathy Ondricka
2025-05-23 13:52:52
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There has been a significant fall in participation over the last five years, from 156,700 down to 117,000 up until May 2019/20 (though this period includes the early stages of the pandemic). Hockey participation levels have seen a decline since Rio 2016, according to Sport England’s Active Lives survey. Most notably, female participation in hockey across England fell; from 77,200 (2015/16) to 49,200 in 2019/20. However the current figure represents something of a rebound from a low point of 38,700 in 2017/18. Overall, Sport England says there was a “significant decrease” over the five-year period.
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