Thanks for sharing this. As a hockey dad in a non traditional market and with a daughter, I love this info. My son’s program has had such weird growth and COVID really threw a wrench in everything.
Glad to see the game is growing in the states. I do worry we are slowly running into the same problem where people are being priced out. My son bounces around but is sorta a mid level travel player. I think we are spending over $10k. I’ve heard the AAA team in my area costs around $30k. It’s just crazy.
One company is also buying up all the rinks from MD through to Connecticut. They are coming in and doing some surface repairs and sorta keeping prices stagnant. Then they shoot up and they push out the lower players. I worry what it is going to do to youth hockey- it’s why we left one program.
Thanks for posting this! I constantly read about the decline of youth hockey, so I was pleasantly surprised to see the data as a Michigan resident.
I love seeing the growth in "non-traditional" states, and am particularly interested in seeing how growth will continue in Utah with the state officially getting an NHL team. I do have to wonder if they will run into the same hurdles as the author indicates Nevada experienced (lack of rinks particularly), but I'm not sure if Utah already has more infrastructure in that regard than Nevada did. Either way, this looks like an optimistic outlook for the future of youth hockey of both genders in this country; I can only hope this results in the USA bringing home some gold medals in years to come!
Oregon's interest is really shocking given [how few players](https://www.quanthockey.com/nhl/us-state/nhl-players-born-in-oregon-career-stats.html) it's ever sent to the NHL.
There's not much change in membership YOY for Oregon, though. And Washington state is significantly lower in interest according to these stats. By your thinking, if Seattle would boost Oregon's, it should've boosted Washington's, too.
Would love to see USA Hockey do this for officials. I refereed from age 13 to 27, but something snapped in people post covid. Coaches and parents are violent in a way that only happen 1 in every 100 games previously. I completely stopped skating USA Hockey games and only do local varsity now.
I always enjoy this work at the end of the year. cool interactive visual at the bottom of the post if you want to dig into a particular state.
Thanks for sharing this. As a hockey dad in a non traditional market and with a daughter, I love this info. My son’s program has had such weird growth and COVID really threw a wrench in everything. Glad to see the game is growing in the states. I do worry we are slowly running into the same problem where people are being priced out. My son bounces around but is sorta a mid level travel player. I think we are spending over $10k. I’ve heard the AAA team in my area costs around $30k. It’s just crazy. One company is also buying up all the rinks from MD through to Connecticut. They are coming in and doing some surface repairs and sorta keeping prices stagnant. Then they shoot up and they push out the lower players. I worry what it is going to do to youth hockey- it’s why we left one program.
Thanks for posting this! I constantly read about the decline of youth hockey, so I was pleasantly surprised to see the data as a Michigan resident. I love seeing the growth in "non-traditional" states, and am particularly interested in seeing how growth will continue in Utah with the state officially getting an NHL team. I do have to wonder if they will run into the same hurdles as the author indicates Nevada experienced (lack of rinks particularly), but I'm not sure if Utah already has more infrastructure in that regard than Nevada did. Either way, this looks like an optimistic outlook for the future of youth hockey of both genders in this country; I can only hope this results in the USA bringing home some gold medals in years to come!
Oregon's interest is really shocking given [how few players](https://www.quanthockey.com/nhl/us-state/nhl-players-born-in-oregon-career-stats.html) it's ever sent to the NHL.
I mean, part of that has to be because of Seattle right? I know it’s not the same state but I would imagine the proximity alone would cause a jump.
There's not much change in membership YOY for Oregon, though. And Washington state is significantly lower in interest according to these stats. By your thinking, if Seattle would boost Oregon's, it should've boosted Washington's, too.
Yeah that’s true.
Would love to see USA Hockey do this for officials. I refereed from age 13 to 27, but something snapped in people post covid. Coaches and parents are violent in a way that only happen 1 in every 100 games previously. I completely stopped skating USA Hockey games and only do local varsity now.
Im pretty sure the yearly report does have statistics on officials
3 M’s still leading the way by a large margin
Florida becoming a hockey state