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No, it’s not because I hate it for no reason, and not because it’s not fun, but somehow I have something against sports that aren’t really affordable to the regular guy. I think there’s a correlation between cost of playing game and its popularity. Case in point, 2 of the most popular sports around the world, football (soccer as North American’s call it) and basketball.
Why are these more popular than hockey (besides the fact it’s hard to play hockey in countries where the average temp year round is 30 deg Celcius :) )? They don’t cost much to play! Of course, you need a pair of shoes and a ball, but compare that to the equipment / environment required to play hockey: ice rink, ice skates, stick, helmet, gloves, hockey pants, and shoulder pads. I guess you get the picture.
Now let me say, that I enjoyed playing pickup hockey when I first came to Canada. We did that late nights at open outdoor rinks during the winter, with no slapshots allowed, using no other equipment but sticks and skates, and it was tons of fun. But the fun of playing and watching is just not the same; I think professional hockey is just too far separated from people like me who come from countries where hockey is a relative unknown.
The issue is that in trying to get used to a certain sport is that you have to play it enough to grow into it, and pickup hockey as I played it doesn’t at all resemble what’s actually played in pro leagues, hence the disconnection. To play hockey as it’s plyaed professionally requires lots of equipment, and equipment costs money, which is kinda hard to come by these days :), so my apologies to hockey, but I just can’t like you that much.
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