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Originally Posted by 46zilzal
When I first moved to British Columbia, I did not know a thing about ice hockey.
Friends and colleagues tried to help out, but I think it is one of those pastimes that you have to had grown up with (like BB, football, and basket ball here in the USA) to ever understand the subtleties about it.
One of the very first phrases I learned; "Hey there was a fight here and then a hockey game broke out from that."
I learned (via the Canucks team) that each team has an "enforcer" or two, whose JOB it is to start altercations where they were never necessary. The Canucks has a guy named "Tiger" Williams who played that role sitting in the penalty box so often one would think that was his position.
I witnessed people who were sitting outside the protection of the glass around the rink her some nasty cuts when the puck sailed higher than that protection allowed. One young girl (NOT that long ago) was killed at a Blue Jackets game from that very maneuver.
I never thought the players had the protection that say an NFL player had..
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Your knowledge of professional hockey is outdated.
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