Ice Hockey

[charlie 944]

Any Ice Hockey fans out there ???

[Plotloss]

Havent watched it for years.

Used to play some years ago.

Wonderful sport.

[GCerbera]

Favourite sport since seeing it in Canada 25+ years ago.

The Leafs are my team, used to have season tickets here for the Milton Keynes Kings.

All starts again tonight over the pond - bring it on!

[davey68]

saw the redwings in detroit and rangers at madison sq gardens. Great game, much better live than on tv...plus the odd bare knuckle fight! :-)

[nuclearsquash]

yay go leafs! went to the HOckey Hall of Fame in toronto last year and saw the Stanley Cup!

Have my leafs puck sat at home along with my Leafs zippo!

[T5-R]

GCerbera said:

Favourite sport since seeing it in Canada 25+ years ago. The Leafs are my team, used to have season tickets here for the Milton Keynes Kings. All starts again tonight over the pond - bring it on!

One of the best action packed sports to see live makes footie seem

Grew up in Montreal, so was a huge Canadians fan.

However, my brother and parents now live in the Toronto region, so I have this feeling I now need to start supporting the Leafs

[hammerwerfer]

Bruins fan. Still play a bit myself. Great game.

[turbo tim]

charlie 944 said:

Any Ice Hockey fans out there ???

Wouldn't call myself a fan per se, but I go along to the occasional Coventry Blaze game.

(My missus' best mates fella plays for them)

Why do you ask?

is it wrong that I like the fighting?

[Jonna_Rex]

Pardon my knowledge but do they play league hockey in UK?

[GCerbera]

Jonna_Rex said:

Pardon my knowledge but do they play league hockey in UK?

We have a number of leagues here, but these are the two top ones.

www.eliteleague.co.uk

www.eiha.co.uk

[gary_tholl]

Cool.. never thought I'd get into a hockey discussion on PH... Go Leafs Go!

Unfortunately, they're not going to go too far this year... too many injury prone guys, and not a big enough defence...

The Calgary Flames and Edmonton Oilers on the other hand, did a great job of picking up talent for this season.

For those of you that don't follow it, last year's season was cut short by a strike by the players union. In the end, they ended up taking a fairly substantial pay cut which allows big name, talented players to go to the smaller budget cities (Like Calgary and Edmonton), so I'm hoping that some of the smaller Canadian teams can finally take it to the big budget US cities.

And yes, it is, IMHO, one of the best sports to watch.

Winter is almost here, just waiting for the dugout to freeze and pull out the sticks and skates!

Gary

[Jonna_Rex]

GCerbera said:

Jonna_Rex said: Pardon my knowledge but do they play league hockey in UK? We have a number of leagues here, but these are the two top ones. www.eliteleague.co.uk www.eiha.co.uk

Thanks for the info, didn´t know about this. Here hockey is the same as in Canada or US, more popular than any other sport. Most of the players here go to the NHL. They make some nice bucks there

[Hughesie2]

Go Stars !!

(the Dallas ones that is )

[Killer2005]

Is the nhl sposed to be starting tonight, just checked channel 5 and is motocross or whatever the american do

[Killer2005]

satch said:

rugby league makes ice hockey players look like pansies. which they are. I know what I'd rather play and watch.

Rugly league is much better than ice hockey, but ice hockey is still highly entertaining

[charlie 944]

Each to their own.... did not expect so many replies, I am a Leafs fan but also follow Nottingham Panthers, any other Panthers fans ??

[GCerbera]

Well the Leafs had their usual season opener and lost at home to Ottawa.. once again.

At least it was close, SO 2-3 - not like the 0-4 shut out last time I was at the ACC.

[Plotloss]

League's a northern softies game...

Tricky call on the 'harder' game between hockey and rugby...

Proper Rugby just has it I reckon.