but I usually watch parts of 2 or 3 NHL games a week and there's consistently 1 or 2 Black guys on the ice during most games. Which would be 1/6th or 1/12th of the players. The Black population of America (13%) falls within that 8-16+% range.. Meaning Black numbers in the league, are consistent with the population @ large. The issue for DWFs & Black Supremacists, is that Blacks don't disproportionately dominate hockey..
Average American, nice input. But I think you're numbers are way too high. I'd be surprised if blacks make up even 5% percent of NHL rosters. Many teams have no blacks and most of the others have only one, at most. Has Detroit, for example, had a single black player over the last 20-plus years?
Only team that has had quite a few recently was Atlanta a few years, as the Thrashers Jewish owners believed having 5 or 6 blacks on the roster would help attendance...It didn't, as most Southern "brothers" are 1) born to hate hockey and 2) can't relate to bunch of Canadian and European mulattoes anyway. Team still has a couple blacks now in Winnipeg, but the number has dwindled to two.
Also, don't forget the U.S. population is somewhat irrelevant in the NHL, as 70% or more of the players come from Canada and Europe.
& my guess is the Bebe's kids that were referenced by Truthteller (acting up @ Kings game), would've been the same @ a Lakers or USC game too..
Actually, AA, I was watching the Kings as the road team. Nonetheless, I have to vehemently disagree with you here. While the same kids may have also "acted up" at an NBA game,
they would never, ever had their backs to the action 90% of time if it was an NBA game featuring Magic Johnson or Kobe Bryant. Heck, they would've watched all of it, even if it was two last place NBA teams. The males would've put off making sexual advances towards the pre-teen hood-rats until the game was over and would've been absolutely riveted to any NBA game.
Not sure why these stupid NHL teams give away free tickets to "urban youths", anyway? Perhaps they feel if they treat them well as kids, they won't carjack their fans outside the arena when the grow up?