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Oh, the good old hockey game is the best game you can name.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZWxErEbQkY

Posted by --MC | May 12, 2008 12:41 PM
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hardly, but slapshot is the best damn sports movie ever and the hanson brothers were the truth.

whereas,basketball is miles davis, hockey is kelly clarkson.

Posted by SeMe | May 12, 2008 12:43 PM
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Posted by unarata | May 12, 2008 12:44 PM
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Gaaahhhh! Gaaaaahhhh! Gaaaahhhh! Do not watch @3's link.

Posted by Fnarf | May 12, 2008 12:47 PM
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Hockey is about one step up from NASCAR on the boring chart. Oh Kelly O why did you post this? Somebody owes me the last 60 seconds of my life back.

Posted by Andy | May 12, 2008 12:50 PM
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If you want action, then yeah, hockey's it.

Baseball: Very pastoral, very peaceful and not that removed from cricket. I like it but, let's be honest, not a whole helluva lot happening there.

Football: As George Carlin points out, it's a war game, pure and simple. A war where every move takes so bloody long to set up that a game that's set to take an hour can spread out to three. Yawn.

Soccer: "They're running to this side of the arena... now they're running back... no, wait, now they're running... POINTS!" And at the end one team wins by two points.

Basketball: See soccer, but crank it up to 78rpm.

Hockey: Ah... guerilla warfare at its finest, complete with fighting, blood on the ice and the best sudden death imaginable. That's poetry, my friends...

Posted by Chris B | May 12, 2008 12:52 PM
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Here's a better fight from the US - Finland game yesterday:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqNRsOWx5mA

Basketball is Miles Davis playing the same note for an hour. How is it even a sport when one of your best players in Shaquille O'Neal? Basketball is jazz flute, hockey is the Pixies.

Posted by left coast | May 12, 2008 12:56 PM
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Hockey is my favorite sport, actually. I don't think it can be topped for speed, skill, and agility...all goonery aside.

And, damn, I was SO gonna post that Milarchuk link, scary stuff there.

Posted by Gabe | May 12, 2008 1:01 PM
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hockey is a great sport -- if you can't see the difference between it and nascar, then i don't know what to say other than "sorry".

it is a very graceful yet physical game. anyone who watches pavel datsyuk handle the puck can see the skill and athleticism.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5KkwRXN_lM

like soccer it has a lot of action, but it is at much higher speeds and in a smaller physical space.

it is a great example of a sport that requires strong teamwork. the speed and physical play requires frequent line changes -- players are only on the ice for 2-8 minutes at a time. this means that you have to have depth and teamwork. unlike the NBA where one player can score all the points.

the players are really great, too. there are no dennis rodmans or ocho cincos in hockey. they're scrappy, tough guys, but they're not primma donnas. they always speak positively of their teammates. it's refreshing.

Posted by some dude | May 12, 2008 1:08 PM
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Hockey is way more fun to play and watch in person.

On TV ... well, it's ok.

Posted by Will in Seattle | May 12, 2008 1:10 PM
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oh, and btw, if everyone wants to see the fights, at least watch some fights that have a history to them: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fA9E8YWSWgo

goalies fighting goalies, revenge fights, wins, losses. the greatest rivalry in recent hockey history, wings avs.

Posted by some dude | May 12, 2008 1:15 PM
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but basketball inspires ridiculous and awesome navel gazing blogs like: http://freedarko.blogspot.com/

Posted by Abe | May 12, 2008 1:24 PM
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Beauty is truth, truth hockey, hockey beauty, -- that is all
Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.

Posted by umvue | May 12, 2008 1:36 PM
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I went to a fight one night, and a hockey match broke out...

Posted by COMTE | May 12, 2008 1:55 PM
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Americans just don't understand hockey. It's a way of life here. Hockey is on every TV, in every small corner store, of every community. The IIHF and NHL coverage is round-the-clock in Canada. Is any US affiliate even showing the IIHF? I know they put the odd NHL playoff game on NBC.

Posted by Canadian | May 12, 2008 1:56 PM
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@10, your are exactly right, when I try and watch games with my non-hockey literate friends they get bored, you just can't see a play develop on tv like you can in person..

Posted by WA | May 12, 2008 2:04 PM
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BTW, anyone know the first US team to win Lord Stanley's Cup? Hmmm, Chicago? Detroit? Nope...

http://www.seattlehockey.net/metropolitans/metropolitans.htm

Posted by Gabe | May 12, 2008 2:09 PM
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@15 - so true.

Posted by Will in Seattle | May 12, 2008 2:17 PM
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If u think Shaq is b-ball's best player youre either on crack or a hockey fan.

It would take 30 Gretzkies to make one Oscar Robertson.

Posted by SeMe | May 12, 2008 2:34 PM
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Hockey is the only sport wherein you have to learn another sport before you can learn to play it. It's ballet, and strategy, and grit and grace.

Basketball: Give each team 100 points and play for 5 minutes.

Baseball: I went to a World Series final game and fell asleep in the third inning. Woke up at the 7th inning stretch.

Football is okay, but I like CFL football better.

NASCAR is not a sport. It's driving. In circles. All day.

Posted by DLF | May 12, 2008 3:16 PM
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skating is not a sport, its skating.

Posted by SeMe | May 12, 2008 3:22 PM
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You want to tell that to speed skaters and figure skaters?

You have to start in the same place for all three sports, but only hockey changes it into a game.

Posted by DLF | May 12, 2008 3:32 PM
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@20: You have to learn to swim in order to dive and synchronize swim, you have to run to do all sorts of sports. Heck, walking is a sport as well, which means golf must be one of the greatest sports.

Is the biathlon better because you have to learn two sports to do it? How about the triathlon? Pentathlon (5 sports!)? Heptathlon or decathlon?

Posted by Greg Barnes | May 12, 2008 3:34 PM
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you implied that skating itself was a sport. its not. but for the record, i will be glad to tell a figure skater that. ill do it when someone is holding up a card with a number.

Posted by SeMe | May 12, 2008 3:37 PM
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this would have been a great fight if the gloves came off

Posted by yard sale | May 12, 2008 3:40 PM
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Jesus saves....and Yzerman with the rebound! GOAL HEATHENS!

Posted by Tony Skiba | May 12, 2008 3:49 PM
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I could give a shit about pro basketball, others have said that Shaq's one of the best. As much as I don't care, college basketball can be pretty good and ESPN is probably 95% for pro basketball's devolution into the travel and dunk league that it's turned into. Finally, 30 King James couldn't hold Malkin's jock.

Will is totally right that hockey is 100% better at the rink. And, as good as this year's playoffs are, no one sees them on Versus. No one can blame people down here for not watching when the NHL signs a deal with Versus for some money, rather than put the games on ESPN for nothing.

Posted by left coast | May 12, 2008 3:52 PM
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# 26 - Tony, you're the one that took my dreamboat picture of Sergei Fedorov out of my locker, aren't you?

Posted by KELLY O | May 12, 2008 4:00 PM
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  1. I watched hockey on Detroit/Windsor TV in the 1960/70s. They had long fights back then. Once the two teams went at if for 15 minutes, cut to commercial, came back and they were still fighting!
  2. You don't understand how vicious hockey is until you go the game in person. Players wallop the bejeezus out of other players whenever the refs and cameras are looking elsewhere.
Posted by butterw | May 12, 2008 4:28 PM
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hokey, i mean hockey's playoffs makes the regular season worthless.

i gotta say, i never watched the sport, never cared for it, it bores me to the point of suicide. with that said, i still remember Philly going crazy when the flyers won the cup in the 70's when i was a wee kid.

it would take 106 bobby clarks (sp?) to make ONe Julius Erving.

Posted by SeMe | May 12, 2008 4:54 PM
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Those commentators aren't exactly impartial :).

Posted by Vasya | May 12, 2008 10:48 PM
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@3 wow. I kind of wish I didn't watch that.
I can't believe the guy lived. Impressive.

"The sight was so grizzly that 2 spectators suffered heart attacks and 3 of Malarchuk’s teammates vomited while still on the ice."
http://www.thehockeyblog.com/thehockeyblog/?p=12

Posted by Jamey | May 13, 2008 9:03 AM

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