There’s an old saying among sports fans: I went to a fight, and a game of ice hockey broke out.
That’s something to bear in mind when you attend an NHL match in the US or Canada. It’s going to be violent. This might be a game of great skill and even beauty, of blokes the size of Rocky Mountains dancing on ice like figure-skaters, but at some point those blokes will slip off their padded gloves, sling their helmets to the ice and start throwing wild punches at someone else doing the same.Why they do that is really anyone’s guess.
I love the spectacle, the show that Americans and Canadians really know how to put on, the lights, the music, the Jumbotrons, the snacks, the action. Some people get their hit of culture in museums or concert halls, but I’ll take mine in a 20,000-seat hockey stadium, as gladiators on ice literally beat each other into submission.I try to attend local sporting events wherever I am in the world. Sometimes you need to plan these things well in advance; other times it’s spontaneous.
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