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Capitals owner sees untapped potential of China

Ted Leonsis believes player born, trained there will soon play in NHL

February 1st, 2017

 

WASHINGTON -- Washington Capitals owner Ted Leonsis envisions a day when a player born and trained in China will play in the NHL. He also believes that day isn't far off.

 

By hosting a group of 25 youth hockey players from two primary schools in Beijing the past 10 days to kick off Hockey Is For Everyone month, Leonsis and the Capitals have seen there is some young talent there already. And with the 2022 Beijing Olympics on the distant horizon, Leonsis expects the development process to be accelerated.

"We believe and I believe that China is the next great market for hockey," Leonsis said Wednesday. "The Winter Olympics will be played in China. The Chinese government, the Chinese people, the universities and secondary schools are committed to the game. There will be about 200 new rinks being built in China and we would expect China being a very, very formidable force in the Olympics, and also we'll see that China will be producing players and I would expect that we'll have NHL players that were born and trained, just like we've seen in the NBA, and China will be able to bring players here."

 

Hockey Is For Everyone is the NHL's youth development program, which promotes giving children of all backgrounds opportunities to play hockey. In conjunction with ORG Packaging, a metal packaging product manufacturer based in Beijing, the Capitals brought the youth players to Washington partly so they could learn from coaches, Capitals alumni such as Peter Bondra, Alan May and Paul Mulvey, but also so they could experience what the NHL game is like.

 

As part of Chinese Cultural Night, ORG Packaging chairman Zhou Yunjie and some youth players took part in a ceremonial puck drop prior to the Capitals game against the Boston Bruins at Verizon Center on Wednesday. The game was telecast on CCTV in China.

 

The players, ages 6-12, began their visit by attending the morning skate at Kettler Capitals Iceplex on Jan. 23 and capped it with a scrimmage at Verizon Center on Wednesday afternoon. In between, they participated in multiple clinics with youth hockey teams from Washington, D.C. and the surrounding area.

 

Through a translator, Zhou said having the Capitals-Bruins game televised in China "will attract more people to notice the NHL, especially the youth hockey player, because there are many Chinese kids that have started learning hockey there, and there is a good population of people that will develop hockey in China."

 

Zhou also believes this is just the start for his country.

"Fifteen years ago, Chinese TV only broadcast one NBA game a month in China," he said. "Now they are broadcasting four or five games in China every week."

 

The next step will be bringing the NHL to China. NHL Deputy Commissioner Bill Daly visited the country last month and has said the League is hoping to play preseason games there as early as next season.

For the NHL, China is a mostly untapped market. According to the IIHF's website, the country has 1,101 registered hockey players, including 585 junior players, 222 adult male players and 294 adult female players from a population of more than 1.3 billion.

 

But there is room for the sport to grow, with 154 indoor rinks and 206 outdoor rinks in place and plans to build many more.

 

"When they bid and won the Winter Olympics the country basically said, 'We want to have a competitive team, and to do that we want to jumpstart hockey and the country will build more than 200 rinks and they'll be up in 12 to 18 months,' " Leonsis said. "So when you have that kind of infrastructure and investment, the next thing they'll do is look to the NHL for coaches, instructors, infrastructure people, ice people [to] come on over and teach and help [them]."

 

The Capitals plan to be involved in that as well, with coach Barry Trotz and some of their alumni traveling to China this summer. The Bruins were part of the process last summer when Zhou helped arrange for a group that included forwards Matt Beleskey and David Pastrnak and alumni Andrew Raycroft and Bob Sweeney to visit Beijing and Shanghai along with members of the Boston Bruins Youth Hockey Development Team.

 

Zhou said holding NHL preseason games in China "will be a great help" to the sport's development in the country. Leonsis believes NHL teams might someday play regular season games in China.

 

"We say hockey is for everyone. There's a billion people in China, so it's time to accelerate that spreading the gospel, if you will, of the great game," Leonsis said. "Mr Zhou is the greatest evangelist because he loves the game and plays the game and he believes that the NHL is the best league with the best players. So sending some of our players over and our coaches over makes a lot of sense."

 

 

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    bam 2017.02.03 14:42

    확정은 아닌듯 하지만 잘하면 올해 nhl프리게임은 중국에서 할 수도 있다는 건가요? nhl의 중국시장에 대한 관심인지 중국의 자본력인지는 모르겠지만 아무튼 대단하네요. 

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    HockeyDad11 2017.02.04 04:01

    모든걸 다번역못하지만 대충 요점은…

     

    NHL은 중국시장을 중요하게 생각하고 있다.  중국정부도 동참, 200개의 새아이스 링크를 지을계획 2022 겨울 올림픽을 겨냥하여.

    수요일 와싱톤 vs 보스톤 게임은 중국문화저녁으로 행사가있었고, 25명 중국유소년 게임이진행되고, 중국전역에 CCTV로중게됨.

    빠르면 내년에 NHL 프리게임을계획중 (LA 킹즈 vs ㅍVancouver 커넉스). 

    NHL보스톤 코치들과 선수, 유소년팀이 작년에 벌써 중국방문.

    금년에는 와싱톤코치들과 선수들이 방문할계획.

    중국의 하키발전이 고속화에진행될 소식들같음.

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    goodboy 2017.04.23 14:19

    평창은 안 오지만 베이징 올림픽은 가는 NHL.. 이유가 결국 돈이라는게 더 명확해지네요

     

    https://www.thestar.com/sports/hockey/2017/04/03/nhl-wont-go-to-pyeongchang-report.html

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    金洛賢 2017.05.10 18:24

    배트맨생키가 돈하나는 기똥차게 밝혀서 정해진 수순인듯. 짱깨들 머가리수도 많고 돈도 있으니 급전 땡기기에는 존나 좋을듯.

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    hockey usa 2017.11.06 07:43

    중국하키는 이미 북미에 쥬니어 팀을 갖고 있고 가능성이 있는 선수들을 현지로 보내서 조직적으로 하키를 육성하고 있습니다.  북미에 한국계 선수들이 있기는 하지만 조직적으로 키울 수 있는 팀도 없고 이들을 한단계 한단계 올라가는 과정에서 엄청난 차별을 받고 있기 때문에 중국의 자금력과 조직력으로 키워지는거에 비하면 형편없습니다.  이미 중국계 구단주들이 뉴욕 아일랜더 등에서 주국 선수들을 뽑아서 기용하려고 합니다.  2년전인가 캐나다에서 육성하던 중국계 선수가 미국 필립스 아카데미에서 2년 뛰고 NCAA Division 1을 거쳐서 조만간 계약했던 아일랜더로 갈 예정이거나 어쩌면 뛰고 있을지 모르겠네요.  몇년 있음 우리나 일본도 못 따라갈지 모릅니다.


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