I thought all the teams made the playoffs in Hockey.
I think they do in minor leagues, but the NHL only allows the top 8 teams from each conference...and they just introduced a Wild Card series like Baseball and possibly other sports have been doing for years...
I vote Mtl Canadians! Eliminated in round 1. Im from Québec City, and I totally ****ing hate that team. Where are the flames at when you need 'em
I don't actually like the Habs myself but...they are Canadian and they did play very well this year.
I predict the cup will be won by guys wearing skates and knocking pucks around with sticks.
Some of them wear garter belts under their pants...
I live in Texas much more southerer than Dallas. What is hockey?
Ah, hockey...think of a cow pasture with plenty of droppings and you want to whack a few of them...so you find a stick suitable to do so...then you decide that it would be challenging to try to be more accurate with the whacking so you get near a gate in the fence that has posts about 6' wide and you stand back with your stick and try to get the ploppings (not the cow pies but the firmer, rounder ones) between the posts.
Now, say you're out with a friend who sees you doing this and decides that it would be fun to try to stop those ploppings from getting between the posts...so he or she plays Goalie. Your friend is pretty good at stopping the ploppings from entering the "net" so you change your stick a bit...add a blade and curve the blade a bit to make your shots harder to read.
You start "scoring" more often with your new stick so your goalie friend decides to improve his defensive a bit and gets his own stick...and a glove...and starts wearing magazines on his shins because some of those ploppings are pretty dang hard...
Then one night a bunch of your friends show up and find themselves some sticks...so you erect another "net" and find another goalie suitably equipped with magazines, stick and gloves and you have a game...but you don't know what to call it other than "fun".
A few errant shots find their way into the crotches of the two goalies causing both a delay in the game and some rather strange bruises of the "goalie jewels", at which point the goalie falls down and starts rolling around in pain and moaning and saying "ahaaaaaaaa keeeeeee"...repeatedly...kind of a catchy name...so it sticks.
A guy named Jock Strap sees this and invents a protective cup for the goalie jewels and...you start playing in tournaments around the county for the coveted Jock Strap Cup...as he only made one before moving on to other things and nobody bothered to try to duplicate it for others...until the cup is actually won, there are many opportunities for goalies to cry out in pain "ahaaaaaaa keeeeee" until the next season when the cup gets passed on to the new champs.
That, essentially, is field hockey...we started doing it in Canada on ice because the fields were full of frozen cow pies that were very hard and caused may sprained ankles....and the ice was smoother...albeit often covered with snow...so we invented the Zamboni and Skates to make the game more interesting and give the players a beer break during the Zamboni ice cleaning...which was extended to 20 minutes regardless of the amount of snow due to the players wanting more beer
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