The replay of the WJC is getting attention for not getting attention. While I find it a little too pat an answer to say that attendance is down just because everyone noticed that junior hockey has a sexual assault problem, it’s likely part of the reason the stands are also empty. But it is August. That has to be part of the story.
The New York Times has noticed this story:
And so begins the inevitable framing of this story as a uniquely Canadian one allowing everyone else to keep not noticing the problems.
There is so little interest in the WJC that I’ve hardly seen any breathless gushing over goals scored against Austria, and that just makes you wonder if there really was a good reason to replay this event.