When hockey hockey players have interviews, they say UH alot...why?
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All pro athletes do this, not just hockey players.  No original thoughts.
1011222
Maybe they come hear to learn something.  Your question tells us a lot about you.  Maybe someday you will learn the game.
1185548
All of them:  Including Terry, and Gump and Baun, and how about Ryan Smith from this year's Edmonton Oilers picking up his chicklets off the ice in time to score a winning goal!\n\nAll hockey players are brave.  There are bigger athletes out there but there are none tougher.
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When an interviewer asks that question they are giving you the oppurtunity to really sell yourself.  They want to know what is going to set you apart from everyone else that has been interviewed.  Use it as a way to really play up your good qualities.
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Hockey craze99.....don't insult her if you don't get her question.\nShe's making fun of the fact that they're not playing well yet
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LOL at Longnecks answer ...\n\nVery Simply, Hockey is a game placed on the ice (though roller and deck hockey can also be played). A team can suit up 20 players for a game and each team places 6 players on the ice at a time:\n1 Goaltender (who has the job of defending a goal), 2 defensemen, 2 fowards (Left Wing and right wing), and 1 center ice man. Players can come in and out of the lineup on the fly as often as they like.\n\nThere are 3 twenty minute periods in a hockey game followed by a 5 minute sudden death OT if required. If the teams are still tied at the end of OT , they have what is known as a shootout - where players take alternating breakaway shots at the opposing goaltender.\n\nWhichever team scores the most goals wins (each goal is worth a single point). \n\nPlayers are allowed, and in fact are encouraged to use physical contact, called checking, while playing the game. Players are not permitted to hold, grab, use their stick to obstruct or check a player that does not have the puck. If they do so they will get a penalty which is typically 2 minutes (though can be 5 minutes for fighting or a major intent to injure penalty). During that time, his team plays shorthanded with one less player as he serves his penalty.
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It's called being a responsible player.  Doing what you can to disrupt the flow of play for the Other team, which interference of the type you're talking about does, is universal in the nhl.  Are there other ways? Sure! But He, and Other players make Life difficult for the teams they play, and That is the goal of those actions. And he is Neither the Only player to do it or the Most flagrant.  Watch Sidney Crosby sometime.  Or Peter Forsberg.  There are Tons of nhler's who do that kind of thing.\n\nGo Rangers!\n\nUncle Mike.
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Yay! Another Canucks fan!\n\nGoalies don't just drink when they get scored on - that's just when the camera is on them. If you think about it, most skaters are playing 20mins tops because of line changes in a 60 min game. When they're not on the ice, they're drinking. The goalie has to wait for any stoppage in the play to drink water whether that's icing, a penalty called or - when a goal is scored.\n\nIt's just that when a goal is scored on the goalie, the camera wants to see the goalie's reaction so you see it happen then.
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No, they were just trying to gel with each other, like who plays here and there so I can pass the ball to them so they can get an excellent chance to score. Just like Team Canada in hockey, all the players are just trying to get used to how they play with each other so they can win the tournament.
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They don't for a couple of reasons.\n\n1. It's "cool" to have as little on your head as possible.  If you're a LW in the NHL and you have a full cage, players (and people) are gonna laugh at you.\n\n2. The aquarium tends to fog up, and the bird cage can hamper your vision.\n\nThey require a visor in international and Olympic play.  College players are required to have full face protection.\n\nBesides, have you seen the "playoff beards"?  I don't think these guys are worried about their appearance.
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tradition\njust like when they hit their sticks against the goalie's pads \nafter he makes a good save. that was originally done to make the pads bigger, because when they were made of leather in the earlie days, htey would shrink after absorbing water(from the ice)
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You may laugh but I think the stars aer getting to old to play playoff hockey and the youngsters aren't stepping up when they need to.  It is a long season.  It takes a toll on everyone, but especially the older guys.  For all that talent, the last couple seasons haven't been kind to Detroit in the playoffs.
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Some of these answers are right on. Linesmen do not step into the middle of heavyweights throwing bare-knuckle meathooks. They could literally get killed.\nWhen 2 players both drop their gloves to scrap, they are willing to go and the linesmen let them go.\nIf you watch more closely, you will see them step in AS SOON AS one player is at a disadvantage, or does not want to fight. They do not want anyone to get injured. And most hockey players will not keep pounding away after their opponent is down or if the linesmen have broken it up.\nOn some occasions you see some extra shots and most of the time it is because the other guy deserved it for other liberties taken in the past.
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Play hockey because it takes guts and discipline, and those two qualities alone will take you far in the world.\n\nPlay hockey because it's a thrill, and fun because it's fast and dangerous and taking some calculated risks is good for everyone, male or female.\n\nPlay hockey because you will get closer to the people on your hockey team than any other team you'll be on in sports.\n\nPlay hockey because in life you need to stand your ground, and yield nothing, and go all out, and you'll learn all those things in one minute and fifteen seconds on the ice.\n\nPlay hockey because young women who participate in sports are shown in studies to have higher self esteem and better grades than those who do not.\n\nPlay hockey because everyone needs to have a sense of their own mortality and nothing like 60 minutes on the ice will do that for you.\n\nExcept maybe skydiving.\n\nPlay hockey because you already know how to skate and skating's half the battle.\n\nPlay hockey because it's a great litmus test for boys.  The ones who are intimidated aren't worth a second glance.  The ones who think it's cool are.  The ones who come to your games are worth your phone number, and any guy who grabs his gear and joins you on the ice is one you should consider hanging onto.\n\nPlay hockey because you'll love it.  Pretty much anyone who starts -- girls or boys -- winds up with hockey as their passion, and we all need a passion in life.\n\nPlay hockey because it will be different, and will open doors into new experiences for you.  You will learn things that girls who play tamer sports will never know.  Things like reall grit, real toughness, and that the bigger they are, the harder they really do fall.\n\nPlay hockey because if you ever choose a vocation like firefighting or the military, you cannot have a better starting point.  You will have already learned important lessons and skills vital to those kinds of jobs.\n\n(Maybe you better not tell your mom that last one, but it's true -- I've done firefighting and hockey both. ;) )\n\nPlay hockey because it's fun.\n\nGood luck with your mom -- as I've said to others here, maybe make a deal with her that if you play you maintain a certain GPA.  If you don't hold up your end of the bargain, you'll quit.\n\n**\nWith due respect to Zelda, I don't think checking means "exciting."  Women play a different, less physical game much of the time, simply because we have no reason to use our size when size isn't our best advantage.  Women tend to be fast, technical players.  They can also be aggressive, it all depends on the player.  But I've never seen or participated in a 'boring' women's hockey game.
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WOW it snowed once in north carolina!\nThat sure must mean that carolina is a huge hockey area????\n\n\nIt has snowed in Edmonton too! Surprise, surprise!\nBut we are a huge hockey area; people play hockey here not just watch.\n\nGO OILERS GO!\n\nGO OILERS GO!\n\nGO OILERS GO!\n\nGO OILERS GO!
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I think the most talented position is wherever the most talented player happens to be standing.\n\nI play.\n\nI've played forward, usually LW most of the four or five years I've been playing, but recently got put back on D because I've been playing with a bunch of very fast, very capable youngsters and it's a struggle (in my dotage) to keep up with them.\n\nI find D to be a lot more of a thinking position than I thought.  I keep a much larger ice-view, and tend to see plays unfold in both directions.  I find I can better anticipate where the puck will be at any given moment, where it's going, and how to be there and do the right thing.\n\nI've actually had more SOG playing D than I have LW in a while.  I'm more aggressive, and a better player there, which is probably why they moved me (and not just the speed issue).\n\nSo... yeah.  I think centering takes huge skill, endurance and talent.  So does goaltending.  But some of the best hockey players ever have been defensemen (Orr leaps immediately to mind).\n\nYour talent's where the heart and skill are, in the end.
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because in minnestoa we live hockey, its the state of hockey. hockey is the sport of minnesota, and because of that everyone plays hockey which means more people playing in high school making it more competative. also because 99% of the schools have a hockey team and a rink in town. go to any high school and ask them what the schools favroite sport it and they will usually say hockey after that football. and the state tournmanet is followed by more people then any other sport here. basically we are like the candians we are hockey and hockey is us at least in my opion.