Evidently we have a great number of spectacular players. They work hard and train hard to play in the NHL. Everyone has their moments, but is it necessary to scrap on the ice? It is possible to play hockey and not fight with the other players. I can understand the body checks to a certain point, but a full on fight is not necessary to the overall game.
I remember the first NHL game I went to. The crowd was ecstatic every time someone got laid out or a scrap broke out. The feeling I had in that arena was surreal. If violence and fighting was taken away, so would the feeling of warmth and bliss you get from moments like that. With violence and fighting in a hockey game the game is better to watch.
Mark Messier won the Conn Smythe Trophy that year. In the 1984-85 season, the Oilers once again won the Stanley Cup by defeating the Flyers in 5 games. In the 1985-86 season, the Oilers made it all the way to the Conference Finals and faced against a rival the Calgary Flames. To try and stop the skill of the Oilers, the
Wayne Gretzky “The Great One” Born in Brantford, Ontario, Canada, January 26, 1961. Wayne began skating at the age of three on a backyard rink built by his father,Walter. He began playing organized hockey in grade school and was soon such a dominant scorer that he was moved out of his age bracket to play with players several years older. In the book “On the ice with Wayne Gretzky,” Matt Christopher (pg.3) One of Wayne Gretzky’s idols as a young hockey player were his father and Hall of Fame forward Gordie Howe. After playing in several local and regional leagues, Gretzky advanced to play junior hockey with the Sault Sainte Marie Greyhounds of the Ontario Hockey League, a developmental league for young players.
English 101 Professor Addi 20 September 2011 Descriptive Essay It was Friday night there was snow on the ground. I grabbed my hockey bag out of the back of my Jeep and stared walking towards Eddie Egger ice arena. We had a playoff game against Catholic Central the state champs for the past four years. When I opened the door to the arena I could smell the wet rubber floors and hear the sound of the skate sharpener. There were people walking around everywhere.
When he was six years old, his father, Walter, built a rink in the family's backyard, and it was there that Wayne skated for hours on end, every day, practising his skating, shooting and stick handling and learning everything about the game from his dad (Wayne Gretzky Biography). This shows that ever since Gretzky was a kid, he was committed and devoted to hockey which resulted in such a successful NHL career. Secondly, Despite Gretzky’s unimpressive stature, strength and speed, Gretzky's intelligence and reading of the game were unrivalled. He was adept at dodging checks from opposing
But, those who want to play hockey must know how to skate and have tremendous agility and athletic ability. Let’s say you very much enjoy hockey, but don’t exactly have the needed skills. Now what if I told you about a sport that is much like hockey, but anyone can play it? This unique sport is broomball. Broomball is similar to hockey in that it is played on ice, however it is played with a ball instead of a puck, sneakers instead of skates, and the sticks are different.
Players like Sidney Crosby and Pavel Datsyuk are able to play this game because they have so-called “tough guys” on their team that protect them from excessively rough play. Fighting belongs in hockey because it is used for settling conflicts before they escalate into actions more dangerous than punches. Agree that it is better to fight and be done with all hard feelings rather than have men
Some will say hockey is the Canadian identity, some may agree or disagree, but those people could be right, sports is something so easy to take pride in, there’s nothing better than gathering with a few close friends and watching the world juniors knowing that half the country is glued to the TV cheering for the exact same thing you are. Something so simple but so unifying at the same time. Or going out for a walk in the park on a beautiful day, breathing in the fresh air and enjoying the scenery, knowing you’re lucky to be from the great country you are from. This may not seem like we take great pride in our country but waking up every morning knowing there’s no place like home and the happy feeling you get when saying I am a Canadian is the best kind of pride you can have for a
Brian Burke, the Calgary Flames president, has become one of the many advocates for keeping fighting within the game. In January 2012, he stated “Players in the old days would protect themselves, then it evolved into players protecting their teammates, and now I’m not sure who is looking after them”. Thus, Burke eludes a central, albeit often ignored, aspect of the debate. As the rules against fighting become stricter, there is a far greater opportunity for players to commit unsanctioned violent acts with minimal consequences. This relates to the findings of Corriero in 2005 who found that fighting in hockey was almost exclusively dependent on either the situational factor, or environmental factor.