Ice hockey has everything. It combines the very best skills of all other sports: speed, agility, hand-eye coordination, quick-thinking, brute strength, stamina.
Also, it is the only team sport with no out-of-bounds area to run to. If a player's coming at you, you either get out of the way or you're nailed into the boards. It's also the only team sport where players regularily fight, which builds excitement. It's also an incredibly fast game with relatively few whistles and play stopages (compared to the NFL, for example).
You'd think that with all this excitement, ice hockey would be immensely popular in the U.S. But with the exception of a few places in America (Minnesota, New York state, Michigan, North Dakota, Wisconsin) it is considered to be an obscure sport with not a lot of fanfare.
Why do you think this is?
2006-11-26
09:03:27
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