Perhaps we need a more international flavour to this question.
I understand the British are experts at hockey. Perhaps they could offer some insight?
http://www.canada.com/sports/hockey/story.html?id=DCF0E63A-BD01-48E1-BE32-9F76A759D708
Sunday Times jeers hockey in top-10 list, says players wear bedspreads
| Canadian Press |
LONDON (CP) - A British newspaper has put hockey on a top-10 list, but not a complimentary one.
The Sunday Times included ice hockey in a list of "the top 10 overrated things in sport" in a recent edition. "Is it a coincidence that the country which produced the inexplicably popular Celine Dion should also have come up with a sport that is almost unwatchable?" the paper asked.
The newspaper ranked ice hockey at No. 10 and went on to say, "If you could actually see the puck, you might see the point, but it zips across the ice invisible to the naked eye, the whirling antics of men wrapped in bedspreads offering the only clue to its whereabouts.
"Every now and then, the bedspreads stop to have a fight and all are sent off."
Of course Don Cherry had an opinion on that:
Hockey-bashing Brits provoke wrath of Grapes U.K. paper says game overrated
Canadian icon decries `audacity'
GABE GONDASTAFF REPORTER
Don Cherry is not amused.
A British newspaper has rattled the hockey attack dog's cage by putting his beloved game on its list of the top 10 most overrated things in sport.
"Is it a coincidence that the country which produced the inexplicably popular Celine Dion should also have come up with a sport that is almost unwatchable?" writes Alisdair Reid in a recent edition of London's Sunday Times.
Last night, Cherry, a.k.a Grapes, was ready to drop the gloves.
"Any people that have a sport like cricket, where they stop for tea halfway through the game wouldn't understand a good man's game like hockey," Cherry told the Star.
`Anybody that plays sports in short pants, what can you expect?' Don Cherry, hockey analyst |
Gerry Cheevers my all time favorite hockey player.