What do you love about hockey?
457842
What a lovely (and very timely) question, Moon! Ta very much! :)\n\nI have loved hockey since the age of four when I was first exposed to it, watching my beloved Buffalo Sabres (currently hammering the hated Philadelphia Flyers in the first round of the Stanley Cup playoffs -- WOOHOO!). I was never able to skate worth a damn so I'm afraid my "career" began and ended with youthful street hockey games. But man, what great memories...\n\nHockey has always been important to me in my life, from those cold winter nights playing street hockey with my two older brothers and a whole host of neighbourhood pals under the street lights or on a bright Saturday afternoon. I'm smiling just remembering some of my youthful heroics, like the night we were short of players and I was designated as our team's defenseman/goalie (minus any goaltending equipment, of course) and I stopped the biggest kid on the opposing team (he was twice my size and the same age as my eldest brother) on not one but two clean breakaways. Both times I just focused like a laser on the orange street hockey ball (pucks only work on ice) and stole it away from him before he could get off a shot. The cheers of my brothers and friends were awesome but I especially liked when the big fella hoisted me up on his shoulders after the game and called me the first star (hockey awards three stars after a game and 1st star is best). \n\nI also vividly recall EVERY Sabres game I went to see in person, whether in the grand old Aud (Memorial Auditorium) or the spanking new HSBC Arena. My Uncle Norm had season tickets and always took me to a game for my birthday. I'll never forget the night my all-time favourite player -- and THE original Buffalo Sabre -- Gilbert Perreault scored a hat trick (that's 3 goals, just like in soccer) and had a couple of assists as well. I swear he did it just for me! (I was only 10 years old, of course, so what did I know? lol) My most recent game was only a month ago, here in Washington, when a bunch of us went to see our visiting Sabres thump the local Caps. Joined by a whole host of transplanted Buffalonians and Sabres boosters who travel with the team, we made more noise than the locals in THEIR OWN building. Great fun! My last game attended in Buffalo was a couple of years ago when my younger brother and I made a trip home to catch both a Sabres game (we won!) and Bills game (we lost.) while otherwise catching up with extended family and old friends. Nice! :)\n\nI love football (NFL mainly, but world football too, especially in World Cup years like this one), Formula 1 auto racing, even golf and tennis -- and the occasional baseball game, just to annoy Patz -- but hockey has always been MY sport, my first love and the source of many happy memories of my bygone youth...\n\nThank you again for asking such a lovely and, for me, personally significant question. Cheers, Moon! :)
974012
Hockey - my ex-boyfriend, an indian is totally nuts about this game. He told me once that hockey is his life.
634992
i love sports too.... my favorites r chess and rowing..\nchess.. shows the mind power and rowing shows the physical power...\nand i like all other sports too...
776320
I love Montreal. Not only because they're a great team, but their history is fascinating. The Bell Centre is crazy on game nights; no other fans are as loud as us. We have a great captain with so much heart. Ahh I love the Habs. <3
383157
I used to play Hockey, I loved it and miss it tons.
152890
i Love soccer, ive been playing all my life and i started because my older brother was obsesed with it and now i am. i love cause its the best sport ever and its so much fun and its THE best sport to watch profetionaly!
132882
Fairbanks, Alaska! I used to live there. Hockey was HUGE, as was skiing, skijoring, ice skating, snow shoe softball (my personal favorite), and the like.
957708
I enjoy provincial health care.  We still pay for prescriptions and stuff, but the visit to the doc is free. (well not free in the sense that we pay out the bum for taxes! lol)\n\nI like our warm summers and white Christmases (although I HATE snow)\n\nI like how we are viewed as "the nice guys".  Not entirely true, but in gerenal I suppose it is.\n\nI also love our "mosaic" society and our multi-culturism.\n\nAnd I love Canadian jokes.  They make me laugh =)
139350
Devils\nMats Sundin\nI love Brody of course, but I have to say Dominik Hasek is my fave netter of all time
438811
both are fun.  i can't skate but i like watching pro ice hockey.  as far as inline, it is fun to play becuz it can be done indoor and outdoor.
612319
agreed loved the Sabres from day 1 \nthey are amazing, they play the game the way it should be played.\n\nDucks-Sabres 06 cup \n\nsabres win it in 6
190636
Junior hockey is very exciting and more wide open than the NHL.\n\nMany of the future stars come from the OHL and it is nice to see them play on the way up and of course it is a lot cheaper to go to the junior games.
651322
When I was in my early twenties some friends and I thought that it would be fun to rent some ice-time and have a 'fun' game of hockey.\n\nWell the only available ice-time at the local rink was from 2am-3am on Saturday night / Sunday morning.  Well, as young adult males what do you think that we did in the meantime?\n\nOf course beer is the answer to every question for every twenty-something male Canadian.  (or should I just drop the 'twenty-something' and 'Canadian' and be done with it)\n\nWell we were pretty drunk by 1:00am and we still had another hour to kill.  (I'm not proud of this next part but it happened and I won't lie about it)  We were drinking outside next to a cemetery on the edge of town and we noticed that there were some unused gravestones so we took one.\n\nWe were going to play a prank on someone.  Who knows how beer-fueled logic works anyway?  Well we noticed it was time to go to the rink, still with this gravestone in the back of my buddies pick-up.\n\nI'm a good street-hockey player but I'm not the greatest skater.  (my mother never took me to hockey as a child because she doesn't like getting up at 4am and hey, who can blame her? - I love my mother but I would have liked to have played more hockey)  \n\nAnyway, while we were just warming up and passing the puck around and shooting on net, I lost my balance, fell backwards, put my arm out to catch my fall but broke off the tip of my collar bone.  Ouch!  \n\nIf anybody has had that injury then you will know that no amount of beer will stop that pain.  The worst part was taking off the hockey jersey to have a look.  Double ouch!\n\nI'm not saying that I didn't deserve it - I did!  Perhaps this is an example of instant karma.  In any case let me be your warning:  don't drink and skate! and especially don't drink and skate after stealing a gravestone!  (unless you've got the skills of Theoren Fleury or Sandis Ozolinch)\n\nI went to Emergency and they put me in a sling and told me to visit my regular doctor the next day.  I did, and do you know what he said:  (direct quote)  "What do you want me to do about it?"
1111402
I like playing tennis.\n\nI like watching basketball, tennis, and football.  they are exciting to watch, especially live.\n\nAlso like watching hockey, both live and on TV.
624541
football (american). i also love other american sports like ice hockey and baseball.
908922
my favorite team is the Detroit Red Wings.because the entire organizations commitment to winning is second to none.
456558
Yes!! I fell in love with him the first game that I went to this season. I've been to four games and I'm going to the Playoff game this Saturday when the Canes play Montreal.  I'm going with one of my friends who is obsessed with him. He plays excellent hockey and I think he is just gorgeous. Finally, someone on here who loves Eric! :)