Chapter 7. Playing with the Big Boys: Smaller Markets, Competitive Balance, and the Hope for a Championship Team

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. Foreword vii
4. Acknowledgements xi
5. Introduction 1
6. Part I: Hockey in Contemporary Canadian Culture
7. Chapter 1. Whose Sweater Is This? The Changing Meanings of Hockey in Quebec 29
8. Chapter 2. Selective Memory in a Global Culture: Reconsidering Links between Youth,Hockey, and Canadian Identity 53
9. Chapter 3. The Game of Whose Lives? Gender, Race, and Entitlement in Canada’s “National” Game 71
10. Chapter 4. Women’s Hockey in Canada: After the “Gold Rush” 85
11. Chapter 5. Hockey Canada and the Bodychecking Debate in Minor Hockey 101
12. Chapter 6. Racialization and Hockey in Canada: From Personal Troubles to a Canadian Challenge 123
13. Part II: The Political Economy of Hockey
14. Chapter 7. Playing with the Big Boys: Smaller Markets, Competitive Balance, and the Hope for a Championship Team 143
15. Chapter 8. Hockey Night in the United States? The NHL,Major League Sports, and the Evolving Television/Media Marketplace 163
16. Chapter 9. Expanding the Footprint? Questioning the NHL’s Expansion and Relocation Strategy 181
17. Chapter 10. From Maple Leaf Gardens to the Air Canada Centre: The Downtown Entertainment Economy in “World Class” Toronto 201
18. Chapter 11. Have Skates,Will Travel: Canada, International Hockey, and the Changing Hockey Labour Market 215
19. Chapter 12. Globalization in Professional Sport: Comparisons and Contrasts between Hockey and European Football 237
20. Contributors 263
21. Index 267