5 Reasons Why Santa Claus Is a Hockey Fan
By JP Powell
Nov 27, 2014; Lake Louise, Alberta, Canada; A general view as the men
#3. The North Pole is Cold and Icy
But not too cold. In the “summer” time, the North Pole can reach temperatures as high as 32 degrees Fahrenheit (that’s 0 degrees Celsius for our Canadian readers) and can get as cold as -45 degrees Fahrenheit (-43 degrees Celsius) in the winter. The ice is usually between just over 6 and a half feet to almost 10 feet thick.
Raise your hand if you can guess what surface hockey is played on that isn’t used as a surface in any other major sport. You’re right, it’s ice! Great job, I knew you could get it. Having a climate such as the North Pole has makes hockey the perfect sport to played indoors or outdoors year round at the North Pole.
This type of climate rules out the following sports: baseball, basketball, and soccer. Football, conspicuously missing from that list, occasionally plays on ice, but it makes for a very difficult game. However, as I suggested earlier, hockey is always (well, ice hockey anyways) played on ice, which makes it the easiest sport to be practiced and played in the North Pole.
NOTE: Individual sports such as skiing and snowboarding as well as team-ish sports such as curling and bobsledding are likely played there and Santa Claus may even enjoy watching them from time to time, but this article is focused on the major team sports.