Friday, April 3, 2009

Ice Hockey Suffering from Global Economic Recession

Ice hockey is one of the most popular sports in USA and Canada. I did not know that it has good fan base in Japan too. Japan's Seibu Prince Rabbits cannot continue out anymore and it is a big shock for all the ice hockey fans in Asia. So, now there is not too many clubs in Asia Ice Hockey League (AIHL).

Reuters reported:

Seibu were unable to maintain their operations with attendances slumping amid an economic downturn which already has claimed several big-name victims in Japanese sport.

Rabbits owners Prince Hotel said they had failed to find a buyer despite holding talks with more than 20 interested parties.

Seibu's pullout leaves the AIHL without a team based in Tokyo. Three of the remaining clubs are Japanese with two from South Korea, along with the Shanghai-based China Sharks.

Surely a bad news and there is nothing to be done except to hope that we do not have to hear more bad news regarding the recession.

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