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Originally Posted by jamincan
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It's most definitely true that hockey is in decline in Canada, but that doesn't mean that its place as the culturally iconic sport is going to going away any time soon.
Football became more popular than baseball decades ago in the US, and still baseball today remains up there as one of the most iconic aspects of American culture in general.
In our case, well with
Canada being Canada, the ultimate result of hockey's receding place will likely be that we don't have any iconic sport at all associated with the country, as opposed to seeing another sport replace hockey in that role.
But that's still a long way down the line I'd say.