Neal Freiman

And a lot of American families might be like, well, I want to have my kid do skiing or snowboarding.

But when I look at the prices for lift tickets or any of this equipment that they're getting, it's just way too expensive.

But Norway has this very robust secondary market market.

for winter sports equipment that allows families to get them at lower prices.

And then when it comes to signing them up for leagues, it's also not expensive.

So you can see that this is a deliberate strategy and it's absolutely paying off.

And then another thing that's interesting to me is we're talking about winter sports and Norway being so good.

They are not so good at hockey, which is shocking because the two other Scandinavian countries that very much resemble Norway, Sweden and Finland are

are amazing at hockey.

There are 95 Swedes in the NHL this season.

There are 46 Finns, but there are only three Norwegian players in the NHL.

And this has to do, you could go down a big rabbit hole and I highly recommend it because it's very interesting.

But here's just a reflection of that.

There's just no hockey rinks in Norway.

It has 54 indoor rinks in total.

There are more rinks in 60 miles of Stockholm, Sweden than that.

So go down the rabbit hole, figure out why Norway is not good at hockey, even though they just kind of dominate at every single other winter sport.

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