Up here in Canada, hockey is a religion.

I guess it isn't as big down in the states as sports like football, baseball, and basketball because hockey is much less accessible. The cost of buying skates, pads, stick, helmet, registration fees, ice time, ect really limits hockey to mostly middle class and rich kids.
Which is really a shame, because as we know most of our sport heros (especially in boxing) were fueled to greatness by poverty.