This is a hockey post
First thing is first: I do not subscribe to the “I hate hockey; hockey is stupid; How can you even see the puck?” state of mind a majority of the sports blogging ilk classifies themselves under. I appreciate the game. It is physical. It is fast-paced. It is entertaining and somewhat exciting. Not to mention, the Stanley Cup is the finest trophy in all the land.
However, I do not watch the sport. I didn’t watch a minute of the finals. (Seriously, when did the Ducks change their colors? Congrats on the championship, fellas.) Save for a few random St. Louis Blues games my roommate had on earlier this season, I didn’t catch a minute of live hockey. I’m not really sure what to attribute to all of this. Maybe it’s the fact that the games are hard to come by on TV. Maybe it’s because I don’t really hang out with a large contingent of people who watch the sport. Maybe it’s because I didn’t play the sport growing up.
I think the largest reason I don’t watch hockey is rather simple: I never did. I knew of Jeremy Roenick and Ed Belfour and the like when the Blackhawks were in their heyday, but I can’t really ever remember actually watching them play. I have been to a fair amount of Chicago Bulls games. I have been to a lot of Chicago White Sox games. The only Blackhawks game I ever attended was a scrimmage before the season at the old Chicago Stadium. Hockey has just never run through my veins like other sports have.
I don’t know if this is everyone’s reason for not watching the sport. But, it certainly is mine.
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Living in Toronto I grew up watching hockey, but now I find the game bogged down with teams playing a boring trapping style of defence, players who rely too heavily on brute force than finesse, and a disjointed flow to the game. It’s not all that entertaining, hence the shat-tastic ratings south of the (Canadian) border.
Rasheed,
I know exactly what you mean. What ever happened to the “Gordon Bambays” and the “Triple Deeks” of hockey? Those were the good old days!
Hockey is the greatest sport of all time. The finals is probably the second most known, right after the superbowl. Can you even tell me what the name of the trophy for the NBA championship is? Exactly, the NHL has the “Stanley Cup”. If hockey didnt take that year off maybe youd still be watching it. And tsunami, if you want to see something sick then watch ovechkin or crosby. they are much more famous and popular then the movie the mighty ducks, even though its a classic.
You made it to a scrimmage but never a game!!! Speechless. The Hawks during the Roenick and Belfour years were good, that is before the wheels fell off the vehicle that is the Blackhawk organization. Nothing compares to a Hawk game back then. Not a Bull, Bear, Sox, or Cub game, not back then anyways.
(In my best Ken Nordine voice-over)It was “Cold Steel on Ice!”
The Chicago Stadium was as exciting a place as there was on the planet during Hawk games. The intensity was turned up several notches, the decibel levels were cranked up naturally (fans screaming till the vocal chords ached), and the place literally shook at times. If you were lucky, you got to sit in the middle or second balcony and were privy to some of the most passionate, unbashful, vocal fans on the planet.
I miss the old Stadium, I miss the old Hawks, and I miss hockey being played the way it once was, fierce and intense.
Vinnie and Eric,
Hockey is so boring to watch! There are rarely any fights anymore. I can never see the puck. The last game I watched was a Tampa Bay Lightning game, I was actually at the game. Even then it was hard to watch. There were maybe 5000 people at the game. Who are Ovechkin and Crosby? There is a reason why every NHL game except the Finals was played on OLN. Look at the ratings, the NHL tied for 29th with Everybody Loves Raymond re-runs.