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If You Are New To The Game
by Paul on 10/30/08 at 09:58 AM ET
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I know most KK readers know their hockey, but on occasion new hockey fans do read KK and this is for you.
A nice primer on how to prepare and watch a hockey game and it is Blackhawks specific, but you will get the idea.
from Eric Gwinn of the Chicago Tribune,
What just happened?
Every now and then, the crowd boos or cheers, or an official’s whistle stops everything.
“So much happens away from the puck,” Hurley said. “Football is the best sport to watch on TV, but hockey is the best sport to watch in person; you see the whole ice, who’s doing what to whom.”
Where to sit
The higher you sit at a hockey game, the more you can see. Sitting with the goal directly in front of you lets you see how hard players have to work to shoot at the goal.
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Too bad icing won’t get you a line change anymore.
Posted by Hockey1919 from Montreal on 10/30/08 at 01:07 PM ET
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I just emailed this article to the Chief so he could work his sarcastic magic, then I saw Paul’s post. Oh well. I liked the idea of pretending the offensive zone is a big swimming pool when the article was describing offsides. It really made sense to me, especially since I have the mind of a six-year-old
Posted by cephalopod from Chicago, on the poop deck, not over it yet on 10/30/08 at 10:01 AM ET