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Real shit why aren't ther more hispanic hockey players in the NHL ?
Because hockey is expensive as hell. That's why it's all white.
naw, DannyDee gets closer to the point up above. as with all things there's more than one factor involved rather than solely "white people are rich" economics.
look at the states that will have the highest percentages of latinos living there: california, texas, florida, arizona, new mexico, nevada. what do they have in common? hot as fuck desert with a little bit of temperate coastland thrown in.
what they also have in common is that they're also not the hockey factories that michigan and especially minnesota are. los angeles isn't caked in snow and ice five months a year the way minneapolis is. hockey is not woven into the culture of the lived daily existences of californians the way it is for kids in the super white midwest. my family is from minnesota, and they will tell you every type of kid from every neighborhood plays hockey there regardless of economics.
so: white people are rich. sure. but latinos also usually stay the hell away from the bleak, frozen over icescapes that touch on our other border to the north.