User talk:MoreThanMax

This is the user talk page for MoreThanMax (talk) 15:04, 9 February 2016 (UTC)

Wiki Exercise 1
'I went to a fight the other night, and a hockey game broke out.' This has become one of the best known jokes about the sport of ice hockey, particularly the kind played in America and Canada by the teams of the National Hockey League (NHL). For those who don't watch the sport it is best known for its huge body check hits, and sometimes violent altercations between players on the ice. However for the people who love to watch the sport there are also displays of insane skill from some of the best athletes int he world, who are also brilliant characters. While at first hockey can look like 10 guys and 2 goalies just beating the hell out of each other on ice skates there's a lot more to the game, fights and all, than meets the eye. Each game starts with 5 players and 1 goalie from each team on the ice and they swap out in a system of rolling subs of 3 offensive players and 2 defensive, while goalies play full games unless they get pulled for injury or bad performance. Penalties are given on a personal basis, with the normal being 2 minutes off the ice, which leads to a 5v4 power play (although this can also go to 5v3, 4v4, 4v3 or 3v3 depending on what happens). As in any scenario where a number of people are skating about on ice and smashing each other with blades on their feet some pretty nasty injuries can occur (seriously this link is the worst case scenario so viewer discretion is advised) but there's many examples of players being some of the toughest people on the planet, like the Bruins' Greg Campbell staying on with a broken leg. All of this combined with the insanely fast paced nature of the game come together to make it the best sport to watch, hands down and it is only getting bigger in the UK with the EIHL attendance growing year on year. The intensity and dedication of the players is unmatched, the level of physicality of the game is second to none and it is entertaining as hell to go to games and watch them online. I'd watch hockey every day if I could.  MoreThanMax (talk) 22:53, 9 February 2016 (UTC)

I never really understood nor cared about any sports to be honest, but I did enjoy that joke. And maybe I should properly sit down at some point and watch a full thing, hockey might be something I will enjoy. QueenElsaIngrid (talk) 12:40, 19 February 2016 (UTC)