The only reason to miss hockey...

[LoyaltyisaCurse]

I know this is cardinal football, but you gotta love this:

http://thiswebsiterules.com/home/album_showpage.php?pic_id=358

 

[thirty-two]

man the one who made the first move got clocked... that sucks for him

 

[LoyaltyisaCurse]

"Daaaammmnnnn! You got knocked the (BLANK) out!"--Smokey "Friday"

 

[Assface]

That's got to be so embarrassing, getting knocked out with one hit. Lucky for the other guy there were people around to see him knock the ish out of someone.

 

[Brandon_Webb]

that was pretty awesome...

 

[thirty-two]

That's got to be so embarrassing, getting knocked out with one hit. Lucky for the other guy there were people around to see him knock the ish out of someone.

 

[Red Dawn]

Hockey fights are the best part of hockey; too bad the league doesnt think so, and tries to legislate it out . Fans love it. I say forget all those high paid prima donnas and play next year with all enforcers in the lineup.

 

[Sandan]

The league doesn't like it, yeah right, the refs were just standing around waiting for the fight.

 

[Syracusecards]

The league doesn't like it, yeah right, the refs were just standing around waiting for the fight.

Seriously. What were they doing? It looked like the one ref was telling them "Alright gentlemen, let's keep it clean. No rabbit punches or hitting below the belt."

 

[Crazy Canuck]

I know this is cardinal football, but you gotta love this:

http://thiswebsiterules.com/home/album_showpage.php?pic_id=358

Only reason to miss hockey for those who know nothing about the game....

 

[LoyaltyisaCurse]

Only reason to miss hockey for those who know nothing about the game....

Actually, I have been a Blues fan for the past 20 years...but lets face it no contact or fights hockey would have died long ago..

 

[chickenhead]

I agree with CC - core hockey fans don't go to the game for fighting, because they understand the place of fighting in the game. The enforcer doesn't even really exist anymore, because the instigator penalty largley prevents him from retaliating for cheap shots, and he can't go after defenders who now have free reign to smother a scorer like a human blanket. A fight was once a signal that something was actually going on--now it means that exactly nothing is going on.

 

[Crazy Canuck]

I agree with CC - core hockey fans don't go to the game for fighting, because they understand the place of fighting in the game. The enforcer doesn't even really exist anymore, because the instigator penalty largley prevents him from retaliating for cheap shots, and he can't go after defenders who now have free reign to smother a scorer like a human blanket. A fight was once a signal that something was actually going on--now it means that exactly nothing is going on.

Very well put... and I say that as as someone who played in the WHA in the early 70's.

 

[Crazy Canuck]

Actually, I have been a Blues fan for the past 20 years...but lets face it no contact or fights hockey would have died long ago..

Let's not confuse contact, which is integral to the game - and fighting for no real purpose.

 

[earthsci]

...but lets face it no contact...hockey would have died long ago..

And we watch football why?

 

[LoyaltyisaCurse]

And we watch football why?

For pretty much the same reason...

Take the contact and violence out of football and there would be about 95% less fans...

it is the same with hockey, the two sports thrive on contact and violence.

For hockey fans to deny is just that--utter denial. There is no aruging that the amazing athleticism of the athletes involved in the sport is stupendous.

But no contact and no violence= no fans for those two sports.

Actually NHL= No fans regardless.

 

[wilycoyote24]

The only purpose of fights in the NHL is to allow people that hate the sport to make fun of it. It's a great game. In my opinion better than football. However, the NHL is a joke of a league when compared to the NFL or even the XFL.

But I still have love for my first team, even if they may never play a game again.

 

[AussieCardinal]

im going to get in trouble for this but...........Go Penguins!

I know we suck now because basically every good player that we ever had was shipped off in favour of the 'Youth Movement'

 

[wilycoyote24]

im going to get in trouble for this but...........Go Penguins!

I know we suck now because basically every good player that we ever had was shipped off in favour of the 'Youth Movement'

Hey, at least you got Ovechkin since you guys finished dead last...oh wait

 

[AussieCardinal]

Hey, at least you got Ovechkin since you guys finished dead last...oh wait

yeah but we all know it wont bring back the good old days!

 

[Gee!]

Smack Shoppe?

 

[chickenhead]

Yeah, let's distinguish between fighting and contact, but let's also make note of dirty hits, which are the actual violent part of the sport. Fighting in hockey is not particularly bloody, and the refs break it up when one player goes down, which on skates is hardly a KO. The fight often diffused a dirty hit that was coming, or kept a defender in line before he put a stick in a Lafleur, Gretzky, or a Lemieux's skates. Of course you want your team to 'win' the fight, but cheering for fighting specifically is a little weird. It's like hoping a brushback pitch strays inside, and not really caring about a strikeout.