No, it's not football. It's not basketball, nor baseball. Nor chess. ;-) If you ask me- it's ice hockey. It's fast, rarely ends scoreless, it's not to comercialized. And what's best- you get to have the figting matches if you're lucky- that's two sports in one. ;-)
There were some really notorious fights- tagged with names like "Bloody wednesday". They rarely end up with to much blood. I guess with a sport that fast in a cold arena, surrounded by crowd, you got to feel the head rush. ;-)
OK, here's another legend- the 1987 punch-up in Piestany on junior world ice hockey championship. It was played between Canada and Soviet Union, and at one stage fight broke out. Now the weak link in this game were judges who didn't know how to calm the players down. At one stage they had to turn the lights off in whole ice hockey hall to stop the fighting- another first in history I think. The end result- game was terminated and both teams were expelled from competition, which hurt Canadians more than Russians- Canucks were fighting for the gold. Oh, BTW, the end result of the (unfinished) game was 4:2 for Canada.
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LOL that was fun! Although can they start wearing different color clothes - it's kinda hard to follow if both teams are in red and white... And yeah maybe a torch should become standard hockey equipment for when they turn off the lights...
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