The clock isn't right, it really is 4:30 in the morning!
Yep, you read the title right. It is four in the morning and I am still up and today just isn't looking any better. I still have a test to take, some classes to attend, and work to go to. I just hope that the rest of the weekend isn't like this. I might just die the weekend before finals, that would suck.
Let us think happier thoughts, hockey, that isn't a happy thought at all. I just don't feel that I did any justice in my hockey blog. I didn't talk about any individuals or any teams and how well they are doing this year. I just sat there and wrote about what hockey could be compared to.
Hockey is a great sport and it really is up at the list. If you look at the way it is developed it is great. You have a very fast pace back and forth game with violence. In the sport of hockey, fights are almost encouraged, unlike other sports. Will I give hockey the top spot over football? Not in a heart beat but if I had lived in lets say Texas, where the Dallas Stars play, I might enjoy hockey. (Just for future reference, I hate the Stars and the Detroit Red Wings) Any reason why, not really, just because of the teams they are.
The thing that is the coolest about hockey is the names. All of these guys are from who knows where and so they have really cool names like Vincent Lecalavier, Dominik Hasek, Evgeni Nabakov, Eric Lindros, and my favorite... Miikka Kiprusoff. See if you can pronounce that one. The last names are usually the best.
In all reality, the problem with hockey in the United States is that it isn't home grown. It cost to much to practice hockey in America so, no one in America practices it. We may think that this isn't a problem, it really is. While the boys in Colorado or the Midwest, even people in the northern part of the United States have to pay to go practice at an ice rink or arena. People in Canada and in Russia, they have frozen ponds and things that they can practice on at anytime of the day free of charge. Also, I don't know of to many high schools through out America that have a hockey team. Sure there are a few that do in the highly crazy hockey states, like Minnesota. But it is a lot easier and a lot cheaper to play football or basketball in high school then even try to play hockey.
I think it is time for bed.
Let us think happier thoughts, hockey, that isn't a happy thought at all. I just don't feel that I did any justice in my hockey blog. I didn't talk about any individuals or any teams and how well they are doing this year. I just sat there and wrote about what hockey could be compared to.
Hockey is a great sport and it really is up at the list. If you look at the way it is developed it is great. You have a very fast pace back and forth game with violence. In the sport of hockey, fights are almost encouraged, unlike other sports. Will I give hockey the top spot over football? Not in a heart beat but if I had lived in lets say Texas, where the Dallas Stars play, I might enjoy hockey. (Just for future reference, I hate the Stars and the Detroit Red Wings) Any reason why, not really, just because of the teams they are.
The thing that is the coolest about hockey is the names. All of these guys are from who knows where and so they have really cool names like Vincent Lecalavier, Dominik Hasek, Evgeni Nabakov, Eric Lindros, and my favorite... Miikka Kiprusoff. See if you can pronounce that one. The last names are usually the best.
In all reality, the problem with hockey in the United States is that it isn't home grown. It cost to much to practice hockey in America so, no one in America practices it. We may think that this isn't a problem, it really is. While the boys in Colorado or the Midwest, even people in the northern part of the United States have to pay to go practice at an ice rink or arena. People in Canada and in Russia, they have frozen ponds and things that they can practice on at anytime of the day free of charge. Also, I don't know of to many high schools through out America that have a hockey team. Sure there are a few that do in the highly crazy hockey states, like Minnesota. But it is a lot easier and a lot cheaper to play football or basketball in high school then even try to play hockey.
I think it is time for bed.
posted by Eric @ 11:13 PM
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