NHL Hockey thread

[Neil]

Sure, I'm from Grande Prairie, but not Edmonton.  You're not taking into account my player-hating.

How could you hate the Great One™

It's not so much that I hated the players.  Rather, I resented the Edmonton media trying to tell me that I should like the team.  My natural reaction was 'You can't tell me what to do!  I'll show you!'.

[crazy canuck]

How did either of those knock out the oppositions best players.

he did incapacitate an ennemy player.  There are multiple videos of this.

What is your definition of "incapacitate?

You are missing my point.  Hockey is a sport where players purposefully hit the best players in the game with the intent of knocking them out of the game.  "A good clean hit" that does such a thing is much desired.

To some extent Football has the same problem but it is nowhere near as common as in hockey.

[Grey Fox]

So, your problem with Hockey is because it's well Hockey?

[crazy canuck]

So, your problem with Hockey is because it's well Hockey?

No.  My problem is that it isnt hockey.  It is a brutal game masquerading as a real sport.

The day you dont have idiots scrumming after a whistle, trying to take the best players out of the game etc then you might be able to call this a sport.  until then it has more in common with mixed martial arts then sport.

But then again some people think MMA is a sport....

[Grey Fox]

So, your problem with Hockey is because it's well Hockey?

No.  My problem is that it isnt hockey.  It is a brutal game masquerading as a real sport.

The day you dont have idiots scrumming after a whistle, trying to take the best players out of the game etc then you might be able to call this a sport.  until then it has more in common with mixed martial arts then sport.

But then again some people think MMA is a sport....

But that's Hockey. Hockey is a game of intimidation not a game of skill. The wild era of the 80s has you confounded.

Ever since they allowed the forward pass, it has been like that.

Now, I understand why you like BBall so much.

[Neil]

CC is just in whine-mode because his cheapshot Canucks got shown the door in the first round.

[crazy canuck]

But that's Hockey. Hockey is a game of intimidation not a game of skill.

Yeah, you nailed the problem exactly.  When it does become a game of skill (which it has great potential to be) then it could become a great sport.  But until that happens it is just a goon league.

[Grey Fox]

Go Devils!

[Barrister]

I'm with CC that I hate the whole "hockey is a game of intimidation" culture.  I love Don Cherry, but I hate his influence on the game.

But I'm not with CC on his loce for basketball.

[Valdemar]

Denmark has 6 NHL players.

If Phoenix makes the final it will be two years in a row Denmark has a player in the Stanley cup finals 

Now THAT is weird

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[Jaron]

Crapitals prolong their agony.

[Valmy]

1 win away from best season in 14 years 

[Grey Fox]

Viper needs to update his results but so far only Zoupa & I, have a point in the 2nd round of the pool

We suck.

[CountDeMoney]

I don't watch much hockey, but I'm going to watch Game 7, because I want to feel Valmy's chokepain in realtime.

[Valmy]

I don't watch much hockey, but I'm going to watch Game 7, because I want to feel Valmy's chokepain in realtime.

You mean the Caps moment of glorious triumph?

CONFERENCE FINALS!!!!111