Would someone please explain to me that IF I hit my neighbor with any object hard enough to knock out his teeth, break bones, create a gash requiring stitches, chances are I'll go to jail.
But IF I'm on ice skates, I spend maybe 4-5 minutes in a "penalty box?"
I just do not understand all the fighting - that's considered "a part of the game" - in ice hockey.
Therefore I do not watch it.
Sorry.
-neb
What time is the next Blackhawk vs Coyote game, anyone?
8-)
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Ah, fighting is part of the tradition. It is the only other sports with player I know out side of boxing that can really fight well and on skates. I enjoy the sports due to it being a contact sport. I enjoy it more than football.
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Me any my wife went to see a "STARS" game on Tuesday of Easter Week down at the American Airlines Center in Dallas. We rode Dart-Rail in from the South-Eastern Suburbs at Buckner BLVD ($4.00 for two day passes) and watched the show. I was expecting to see a good fight, but a Hockey game broke out instead.
Dallas lost 5-2. But we did get "Bobble Heads" (of a player I'd never heard of).
But what surprised me - a "sign of the times", I guess, was the THEME Music they played for the "Stars": "Ain't no GRAVE gonna Hold My Body Down" - complete with dancing flame motifs on the AV displays all over the place. This in reference to the Stars' less than "Stellar" win record so far.
But the use of THAT music for that purpose seemed VERY out of place, and especially sacrilegious on Easter week -
Don't know that you could have even gotten away with that 20 years ago. But times change.
The Following week we went to a Maveriks Game at the same venue (They won 110-101 as I recall), and we found it MUCH more interesting (Although Nowitzki couldn't hit the broad side of a barn that night).
SO we'll probably go to a Rangers game this year (already been to "Jerry World" for the Cowboys (got free tickets from a vendor) and round out the Dallas "Sports Experience".
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I played a little grammer school hockey in Fargo, ND but like Nelson I have never understood the allowance of fisticuffs during a hockey game. My son took me to one warm up hockey game here in Boise between the Croatians ladies and the Swiss ladies before the Salt Lake Olympics and I don't recall any fighting at all. What for? How come? Is it in the rules? Are there points given for the best fighters? Is there a 10 count if someone is knocked out? I once heard hockey described as a scheduled fight during which a game broke out occasionally. "Splain please. as Ricky Ricardo would say.
The Olympics are a little more special when it comes to hockey. The rules are stricter and you want to be on your best behavior because it represent your country. The fighting has more to with enforcers and protecting your players/teammates from what I have learned. It not that it is looked upon as good just that if you keep hit our guys that hard are enforcers will eventual stop playing nice and come and knock your block of for trying to take out are star players. Fighting in hockey, it is the only sport I know of that has designated enforcers for each team.
"Means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek."
The NHL was probably picking up ideas from Irish football.
Like read here a couple of times ... a game actually broke out the one time we went, with free tickets, of course.
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