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@Mike from Metuchen
Not to be a dick or anything, but I think you should be a bit more careful when you call hockey a niche sport. I know it's en vogue to do so of late (did I really just type "en vogue"?!) to call the NHL a "niche league", but a quick look at the NHL attendance figures for last year shows a league wide attendance of 19.976 million. The NBA, which is pretty comprable in length of season and seating capacity (they play in the same stadia) set a record in 2006 with 21.8 million.
21.8 million compared with 19.9 million.
not so much niche.
niche on tv sure, but not niche outright.
cheers
p.s. GO HABS!