The first skate is always the hardest

No reason to be scared. It always hurts trying something new. Especially when you're falling tail-end first on the ice.

This may be a little different. I plan on bringing the heat. Consider this an open ice hip check.

All I hear is this talk that the graceful game is a dying sport, that soccer is taking over as the fourth dominant sport alongside basketball, baseball, and football.

Blasphemy! Even the NFL and MLB had struggles in their attendance numbers after lockouts.

Hockey is a graceful game, incorporating all things great from all sports. The physicality of football, the high-speed breakaway action like basketball, and the mental toughness to fight through anything like in baseball.

Not to mention that it moves much faster and is much more exciting than soccer...

Try it. The new rules have opened up the game. It's faster, higher scoring, and let me tell you...I'm a goalie and I still appreciate the skyrocketing offensive numbers.



Do yourself a favor. Go watch a game. I recommend anything with a right-handed goalie. Like Jose Theodore here. As a righty myself, I can attest, we make the games a little more exciting.