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[jinju]

Hockey fans need not post.

Fellow haters, lets create a balanced view of this so-called sport.

[mole]

As an ex-hockey-hater, I need to speak up.
I had a temporary on-call job transforming an ice rink to a convention center, laying down inch thick planks of cardboard.
And picking them up and storing them for the ice rink.

I ended up watching a lot of hockey... Pensacola Ice Pilots. Free and rinkside level. I had no idea about the rules.
But I picked up a brochure explaining everything. It's fast, but I eventually got the hang of it.
Kind of like I became a soccer fan in Korea.

Don't hate hockey, hate the Canadians who talk about it incessantly.

[RACETRAITOR]

I'm with you on this one, jinju. Hockey is for dumb kids from the suburbs with rich parents and too much aggression. It would be nice if someone replaced the ice with molten lava.

[jinju]

Even the name is stupid. Hockey?

Racetraitor nailed it: the game is expensive to play, and as such it is quite an exclusive club of people who can aford it. I think there is a clear relationship between how stupid a game is and how much equipment is needed to play it. With hockey, its pretty much as stupid as possible.

[indytrucks]

I think you should distinguish between Olympic ice hockey and NHL. I personally like international ice hockey. NHL stinks.

[RACETRAITOR]

[bassexpander]

I used to watch it as a kid when the Minnesota Northstars played. When they moved, it went away.

Are there any black hockey players? Don't you think they'd kick some rich suburbia white boy butt if there were?

For this reason, I can never think of hockey as being a truly cross-cultural/globally competitive sport. Just a bunch of white boys beating on each other and giving themselves a trophy for it.

[robot]

TOTALLY AGREE.

only retards play hockey. a much better sport is soccer.

it's definitely easier on the body to watch. no neck strains trying to keep up with hockey's intense action, just a relaxing left-to-right motion repeated over and over for hours. it's easy; it's just like saying "no" very slowly. do you like hockey, people sitting in the stadium watching soccer? "Nnnnnnnnnnooooooooo......."

there's a certain beauty to low-scoring games, too. you appreciate a goal more after waiting for it an hour. some may say it's boring, but whatever. i keep busy by drinking beer and picking fights with those who have different and wrong opinions. actually, since many soccer fans aren't exactly einstine, perhaps it's better that the scoring is lower.

soccer is also much more artistic, seeing as you need to incorporate a certain degree of acting. seriously, i'm sick of people criticizing the dive -- it takes special talent to so artfully deceive the ref and the fans. truly a renaissance man's sport. certainly much higher-brow than a savage and brutal hockey game. nice lack of teeth, moron.

another added level of fun in soccer is the post-soccer game riots. i personally just get in the middle of it to analyse the psychology, but if people try to start something with me, it's fekkn on! of course, i don't kick innocent people's asses, obviously, just the a-holes'.

there are many other things that make soccer a true man's sport, such as the metrosexual hairdos that probably cost more than a full set of hockey gear...

and i even don't mind that dave eggers said all sports played with the feet are communist. dude is such an overrater writer. heartbreaking work of staggering crap.

[SPINOZA]

I didn�t have a strong opinion about Hockey until I met the hockey bores over here. I don�t have a strong opinion about Basketball, or some other sport I�d rather eat my own spew than watch. Wanna know why? Boring people don�t tell me about it. US Basketball nerds don�t see the sport as a national dogma one must indoctrinate all people with, like boring Hockey fans and, yes, boring Soccer fans especially. It�ll be the same with other readers � maybe you never hated soccer until you came to Korea, or some other thing. For me, that thing, even though it has no effect on my life, is Hockey. I don�t care how difficult it and skillful it is. I cannot see the puck � it�s tiny, and there�s nothing wrong with my eyesight. It�s too small and travels too fast and the gameplay seems to lack composure and real thought � all mindless, furious spontaneity. Compared to the glamour and popularity of Soccer � the World Cup, the Euros, Champions League � and compared to the simplicity of Soccer, it�s a joke of a sport. And please don�t lecture me about Hockey�s growing popularity in Germany and Sweden because I�ve heard it a million times before and don�t give a shiny shyte.

Hockey is rock-bottom, worse than Football. Wanna know why? Even though I hate Football, there�s something, and God knows what, somewhat cool about it. Maybe it�s the magic, attraction and big bucks of the States? Philadelphia vs Dallas sounds big business and cool, important. It sounds like it matters. Bayern Munich vs Roma is big, very big business and cool-sounding, even if you hate soccer, you�ve gotta admit, Real Madrid vs Barcelona sounds cool. In Soccer it�s the big, rich famous European centers. It�s Brazil vs Argentina in the World Cup semi-final and Italy vs the Netherlands in the other. In the US, it�s New York against San Francisco. In addition to the things I mentioned in paragraph 1, Hockey also seems to lack this big business, cool, important aura.

[Alyallen]

[cbclark4]

Icing the Stereotypes
Black hockey players in a traditionally white sport

by Michael Morrison and Chris Frantz


When Anson Carter was ten years old, his life was much the same as most of the other boys growing up in his Scarborough, Ontario, neighborhood. He went to school, came home, and played hockey. As he continued to play, advancing rapidly through his local leagues and on to Michigan State University, he began to stand out for two reasons. One, he was almost always the best player on the ice, and two, he was black�a rarity in hockey.

Carter was the second-leading scorer for the Boston Bruins in 1999�2000, was traded to the Edmonton Oilers in 2000, to the New York Rangers in 2002, and went to the Vancouver Canucks in 2005. He was one of 17 black athletes in the NHL in 2004. It's a number that may seem low (given the 600+ players in the NHL today) but it still represents a noticeable increase in what has always been thought of as a "white" sport.

http://www.infoplease.com/spot/bhmhockey1.html


O'Ree a hockey pioneer
By John McGourty | NHL.com Feb. 1, 2001



Willie O'Ree, the NHL's first black player, was born in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada, in 1935, the son of a city civil engineer and a member of one of only two black families in the city. He was one of 13 children, including twins who died in infancy.

Willie had an older brother, Richard, who was a good athlete and he followed in his brother's skate strides. He began skating at age three and joined a hockey league when he was five years old.


http://www.nhl.com/blackhistory/oreebio.html

[RACETRAITOR]

We've had a few hockey riots in Edmonton. Yet another occasion I would sanction the use of deadly force by the police. The only thing worse than a hockey player is a hockey fan.

One time I went to a Canada-themed bar in Seoul, and they had a jersey of Wayne Gretzky on the wall. I've heard a lot of first-hand stories about Gretzky being a total douche to people back home (not tipping waitresses, abusing girlfriends publically, general douchiness), and I mentioned this to the bartender (who's not even an Edmontonian). He looked upset, like I'd just denied the Holy Ghost or something.

[JMO]

I also hate hockey. Ive always thought it was pretty slow and boring although i'd occasionally catch it at the olympics..just to see how great britain did, as there are always some northern irelanders on the team. we played it in PE once and messed up my shins as the rules were improperly explained.

i don't mind ice hockey though. when the winter olympics comes around it is a shining beacon of mediocrity in what is otherwises the most boring tv you will ever see.

[Newbie]

Ahhh, we're the photographer and the musician never invited to play hockey with the cool kids? Must have been sad sitting through high school with no more than 2 or 3 friends and nothing to do on the weekend but take pictures and listen to crappy, unheard of "angry" music. I'm surprised neither of you were never involved in any Columbine-style shoot up. Must have been mommy and daddy didn't have enough money to buy you guns.

I know. Sports, friends, treating people with respect, trying new things: these are all foreign words to "artisits".

(i don't think i actuall want to direct these accusations at Racetraitor. Mostly just Jinju... perhaps a little bit of Mr. Traitor)

[RACETRAITOR]