If you could OWN:

[Nicomo Cosca]

(04-03-2023, 12:53 AM)Truck_1_0_1_ Wrote: It's not a bad take: just because we don't agree, doesn't make it inherently bad.

I live in Canada; I don't need to watch hockey, to watch hockey lol.

And the very nature of the sport is barbaric, goons being removed or not.

I have never been as bored in my life at a sporting event as the one NHL game I went to (Flyers at Bruins in '07) and A LOT went on in that game too, it wasn't a 1-0 shootout win. I have been (dragged to) many minor and OHL games too and it is a massive snooze fest, devoid of strategic intracacies that baseball and football have and the class of people that watch it/play it are boorish and can't put 2 and 2 together.

The best was when one of said ignorant morons started posting the meme of, "gets a puck to the face, plays the rest of the game," while disparaging other sports and the baseball selection was because of blisters. I explained to the idiot that while it is painful Indeed, you can't pitch with blisters due to not being able to grip the ball properly, in order to spin it: it has nothing to do with pain.

His response? "yeah? Well a hockey player wouldn't give a **** and he'd do it anyway!" completely missing the fact that a physical issue/obstacle prevents them , not a pain tolerance issue.

Again, the amount of strategy that goes into every pitch, let alone every inning, makes baseball like chess (though the pitch clock kills that a bit) amd the cerebral part is what turns me on the most: hockey can only dream of having such strategy and tactics as intricate and precise as baseball.

You like one, hate the other and I'm the opposite. Great! Differing opinions are what make great debates, but don't shit on mine just because it doesn't jive with yours.

As for nothing like live sports, I qualify Bautista's game 5 HR against Texas in '15, Pratt's INT against the Raiders and even Jennifer Jones' shot to win the Scotties in 2005 (or was is 2006?)

Not only were those 3 moments more exciting than ANYTHING in hockey of the past 50 years, they also got louder pops than ANYTHING hockey has had in the past 50 years either and one is a curling rink that only holds a couple hundred people.

No idea why you keep labeling hockey as “barbaric” but many people say the same thing about football and we know that’s not true. Being a full contact sport doesn’t automatically equal barbaric. Again, at its core hockey is pure speed and skill. The best skaters in the sport will make your jaw drop on a nightly basis. There’s nothing “barbaric” about Connor McDavid weaving his way through 5 guys to score a highlight reel goal.

And if you think moronic, mount breathing fans are unique to hockey you’ve clearly never attended a Bengals/Steelers or Browns game before lol. Not to mention it’s quite a generalization to say the people that play hockey are unintelligent bores. It’s an international sport, consisting of players from all over the world (North America, Scandinavia, Eastern Europe, etc). That’s quite a wide range of cultures, backgrounds, etc.

As far as the intricacies of the game, hockey is indeed a simple sport, but that isn’t necessarily a bad thing. So is soccer (which shares a lot of similarities with hockey) and it’s the most popular sport in the world, by far. It’s also not completely devoid of strategy and tactics anyway. The best coaches will always get the matchups they want with their line changes, and running an effective power play is all about strategy.

Anyway, we’ll just have to agree to disagree. And for the record I don’t even dislike baseball. I grew up a big Reds fan, and have lived in Cincinnati all my life. I still root for them since they’re my hometown team, but I just can’t get into baseball as much as hockey and football as an adult. I find them both infinitely more entertaining.