January 22, 2006

The Good Ol' Hockey Game. It's the best game evah. Love it? Hate it? Did you play as a kid? Do you know what shinny is?
posted by Torluath 18 years ago
  • If you can get your hands on a copy (MP3 or otherwise), this is a rather catchy tune by a popular Newfoundland musical group on that very topic. Shinny, I mean. Go Newfies!
  • Oh, hockey. My home team just crushed our long-time rivals tonight, so I'm feeling quite good about the ol' sport.
  • Yup. Going out to the local lake and shovelling off the snow, setting up goals and beating that puck back and forth on a frigid winters day. Good times.
  • My son has a game tomorrow!
  • I wanted to try it when I was a kid, but there just wasn't enough money around. There was a old rink in town, but it was a long ways from us. Add in equipment, league fees, things like that, and since we never had much money there was no chance. If only I hadn't been raised in southern Arizona, maybe there'd have been a frozen pond nearby on which to play... But I go to hockey games some weekends at the arena here. There's a club team loosely affiliated with the University of Arizona (Icecats). Play is pretty sloppy, passing is not crisp, but it's still fun to go watch them knock off Tomato Can State by a 11-0 score.
  • It's a pretty weird game to start off with, hockey. Sort of a rev-head offshoot of early golf with extra added violence, isn't it? But when you do it on ice it really becomes a contender for wierdest sport ever. Think about it. Pretty specific sort of conditions for playing a game. Without refrigeration, this game is being played by people going out of their way to find a lot of frozen ponds and whatnot. This is a game invented by people with a lot of ice around, which I think in itself is quite odd. We grow up watching ice hockey and so it becomes mundane, oh it's just that game. But here are these guys skidding around, whacking a little hard thing with big hard dangerous fucking sticks, and these blokes have to wear inordinate amounts of armour because of the injuries they deal each other in this activity. This is a game invented by cabin-fevered alcoholics.
  • Camanachd! Not that I've ever played
  • Hey Nona -- that was a sweet Sens win over the Leafs. I was offered tickets to the Ducks game at the Cor... er, ScotiabankPlace, but already had committed to going skiing so I missed it. Life is just too rich -- boy, I love winter. Chyren -- As for hockey being weird, it's only weird in its perfection. Once you can play with any level of competence, all other games will seem slow, awkward, and plodding in comparison. Is it a bad thing to be a cabin-fevered alcoholic?
  • If ya think hockey is a pretty weird game, the product of people stuck around a lot of ice with nothing to do... have you ever heard of curling? :)
  • Never learned to play hockey as a kid, seldom lived where it was popular. Curling is not a sport so much as an activity during which ye study inertia.
  • MonkeyFilter: Whacking a little hard thing with big hard dangerous fucking sticks.
  • nice one, GramMa What bees said - hockey is a game those foreign people play. And how come there's icing but no cake? weird. actually quite graceful and fun to watch, but I wish you could see the puck better on TV
  • I curled on an intermural team at my uni for a season. It was a lot of fun!