101 Reasons To Watch the NHL This Season
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by user Roblefko, Joebook, Shark, Thecrookedcap, M.Smith and Pnatt
Sorry for the as of now misleading title. ArmchairGM users, with the NHL season starting today, let's try and put together 101 reasons to watch the NHL this season. Just hit "edit page" and add to this list. Let's make this a combination of humor with serious reasons. Try to keep each reason as a one-liner. Feel free to renumber the list in any way you wish. And if you add a reason, feel free to add your name as being a co-author of this opninion (if you dont know how, leave a comment below and ill add it for you). And please, feel free to add your own comments, but don't alter comments posted by others. Anyway, let's get moving:
101 Reasons to Watch the NHL this Season
- Fights, goalies going at it, and even more fights.
- Oh, and blood bounces on the ice.
- Their players aren't on steroids and don't get arrested on a daily basis.
- Sidney Crosby was just a rookie last year.
- Sidney Crosby landed on my (Davis21wylie) fantasy team via autodraft!
- Seeing Barry Melrose's mug all over ESPN again.
- It's always fun to watch the Zamboni circle the ice.
- Marathon Shootouts
- Old Rivalries (i.e. Red Wings and Avs!)
- New Rivalries (i.e. Oilers and Canes!)
- Because the NBA sucks.
- The playoffs are the most exciting in sports.
- The Columbus Blue Jackets are biggest train-wreck in all of sports. And who doesn't like to watch a good train wreck?
- Sidney Crosby is the next Great One.
- For a sport that has six to ten scores per game, it's damn exciting.
- United States should beat England or Australia (or Great Britain) at it!
- The NHL is the most global of the "Big 4" North American Sports.
- Like most sports, the players are millionaires... But at least you're better looking than anyone on the ice.
- It's an excuse to buy an HDTV
- Where else can you see the a giant on skates the size of Randy Johnson crash into someone else at 30 mph?
- You get to laugh at the people on Sportscenter when they butcher the foreign names which you can not only pronouce but spell backwards.
- The new Buffalo Sabres logo
- Making fun of the new Buffalo Sabres logo
- It's better than the MLS.
- So the cable channel formerly known as OLN (aka Versus) can stay in business and "thrive" in our capitalistic society.
- Zdeno Chara in Boston
- Pronger playing with Niedermayer
- To improve eyesight by attempting to follow the puck on your 20" TV
- To watch Marty Turco's agressive use of Goalie offensive passing
- Did we mention the fights?
- Duh, the mullets!
- Crosby, Malkin, Stall: The young blood pumping through the Penguins this year
Date
Wed 10/04/06, 3:44 am EST
getting people stoked about hockey by bashing basketball is not a successful business model... just saying.
Here's a good reason to go in person - hot babes go to hockey games at a higher ratio than any other sport, known fact.