"Ice hockey is a form of disorderly conduct in which the score is kept."
-Doug Larson
I have, for the last two years, become engrossed in the NHL play-offs. Perhaps the same blood-lust that makes me a football fan is probably what makes watching enormous men slam each other into plexi-glass wall fun.
-Doug Larson
I have, for the last two years, become engrossed in the NHL play-offs. Perhaps the same blood-lust that makes me a football fan is probably what makes watching enormous men slam each other into plexi-glass wall fun.
"A puck is a hard rubber disk that hockey players strike when they can't hit one another."
-Jimmy Cannon
-Jimmy Cannon
NHL hockey is shown only on a little know sports channel called Versus...they also show the Americas Cup and PBR bull riding. To be fair, I believe they also show Saturday afternoon games on NBC, but the point is it's not easily accessible to someone living in Arkansas. As much as I'd like to pick a team and follow it throughout the regular season, the irregular broadcasts seem to prohibit this. So I root for the Canadians in the play-offs.
"Hockey is figure skating in a war zone."
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This year, I am firmly for the Ottawa Senators. Why Canada? Because, I'm boycotting being an American until the socio-political atmosphere finds a way to end it's steady and demoralizing decay into greed and church-run stupidity.
"High sticking, tripping, slashing, spearing, charging, hooking, fighting, unsportsmanlike conduct, interference, roughing...everything else is just figure skating."
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In the case (as happened last year) that my Canadians don't make it to the Stanley Cup finals, then I'm for Buffalo. Don't ask why, that pick is arbitrary.
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i'm a pbr bullriding fan.
hockey. not so much. :)
"...until the socio-political atmosphere finds a way to end it's steady and demoralizing decay into greed and church-run stupidity."
It sounds like someone needs to invest in some Valium. Try to think of it like this ... anyone can survive in a mamby pamby socialist society. Mamby pamby societies engender violent sports like hockey, but you are blessed to live in a country where our sports are civil. We do all of our cut-throating at the socio-political level. Everyday life is a bloodsport in the South (or tha Dirty South as rappers refer to it). So keep your chin up.
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