Tuesday, March 09, 2004
Violence in Hockey:
Am I the only one who understands that half the crap we see in hockey these days represent outright assaults. I personally have not watched more than 2 hours of hockey in the last 15 years. This is not because I dislike the sport, quite the opposite. It's because I can't stand the price they are charging to see a bunch of guys play a game. Combine this with the fun of watching a player earn millions and then make mistakes a peewee player wouldn't. In addition, you get to see more swordplay with the sticks than if you were at a medieval challenge. The reports from the Vancouver-Colorado game are another fine example. One player sucker punches the other and then pile drives him to the ice, leaving the player in a pool of blood. To me this is just not hockey. The only place to deal with these incidents is in a court of law. It's one thing to get into a fight. It's quite another to blindly sucker punch someone or to use your stick as a weapon.
Am I the only one who understands that half the crap we see in hockey these days represent outright assaults. I personally have not watched more than 2 hours of hockey in the last 15 years. This is not because I dislike the sport, quite the opposite. It's because I can't stand the price they are charging to see a bunch of guys play a game. Combine this with the fun of watching a player earn millions and then make mistakes a peewee player wouldn't. In addition, you get to see more swordplay with the sticks than if you were at a medieval challenge. The reports from the Vancouver-Colorado game are another fine example. One player sucker punches the other and then pile drives him to the ice, leaving the player in a pool of blood. To me this is just not hockey. The only place to deal with these incidents is in a court of law. It's one thing to get into a fight. It's quite another to blindly sucker punch someone or to use your stick as a weapon.
# posted by Wil Smith : 4:04 a.m.
