There's no question that everything is available if you hunt for it, but I would wager that less than 1% of NHL fans spend any of their brain bandwidth pondering hockey overseas. Some might try to check on how their favourite team's prospects are doing over there from time to time, but very few actually try to watch games. I'd say zero per cent of hockey fans in this country have ever pondered whether the Swedish Elite League is on a par with the NHL, and I imagine the vast majority of hockey fans in Sweden accept the fact that the best Swedish players (and the best players from every country, with a handful of exceptions) are in the NHL.
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