The hockey bud
anonymous
March 1 2010, 14:46:36 UTC
Eldan!!
I too have been entirely bitten by the hockey bug - I went to a sports bar yesterday to watch the final - packed full of Canadians. I'm one of a very small handful of English people who even vaguely understand the game - took a few people by surprise when I started sounding off about Canada's lines being faulty during the qualifiers - but what I would say was that the passion they have is overwhelming. It really is a similar vibe to a big football match - and did make me salivate for world cup action... But anyway, point of the post - if anyone hasn't given hockey a viewing they should. It is legal violence, brilliant action, spell-binding skills.
The one thing I wished for during the Olympic tournament? A commentator who knew what he was on about. It was awful. Still, regular season NHL is back on and I can get my fix of good commentary, and Alex Ovechkin back to his dazzling best. Good times!!
Where were you watching it? I didn't get much chance to hear commentators on the US coverage, but from what I've heard the NBC lot were pretty worthless. I would hope the Canadian network could find two people with knowledge of "their" game, but the only bit we could hear was the beginning of the womens' final, during which the female commentator kept jarringly referring to the players as "men".
Sadly, I've just realised that England's first world cup match will be the day after we fly from London to Turkey, which didn't even qualify this time round, and we'll be in Michigan for the second half of the tournament. If the USA gets through the group stage, that will be fun; but otherwise local interest will resemble the usual background level of interest in hockey in states other than Michigan.
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I too have been entirely bitten by the hockey bug - I went to a sports bar yesterday to watch the final - packed full of Canadians.
I'm one of a very small handful of English people who even vaguely understand the game - took a few people by surprise when I started sounding off about Canada's lines being faulty during the qualifiers - but what I would say was that the passion they have is overwhelming. It really is a similar vibe to a big football match - and did make me salivate for world cup action...
But anyway, point of the post - if anyone hasn't given hockey a viewing they should. It is legal violence, brilliant action, spell-binding skills.
The one thing I wished for during the Olympic tournament? A commentator who knew what he was on about. It was awful. Still, regular season NHL is back on and I can get my fix of good commentary, and Alex Ovechkin back to his dazzling best. Good times!!
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Sadly, I've just realised that England's first world cup match will be the day after we fly from London to Turkey, which didn't even qualify this time round, and we'll be in Michigan for the second half of the tournament. If the USA gets through the group stage, that will be fun; but otherwise local interest will resemble the usual background level of interest in hockey in states other than Michigan.
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