Any Hockey Fans in the Festool World?

[Dan Clermont]

The other day I was reading in the paper that they predict that as an adult participation sport, curling will one day surpass hockey in Canada as our baby boomer population ages.

Get out of town!!! No way LOL.

I love hockey and watch way too much of it. Need a TV in my shop or something I can hang around my neck so I can watch games while I work.

I like curling and think it is an easier sport for all people to play as you don't need to know how to skate or handle a puck.

I grew up on the prairies where everyone curls and bonspiels are held every second weekend so it is very popular and a great community builder. Just don't think it will surpass hockey in Canada

Dan Clermont

 

[gjh119]

NJ Devils fan and season ticket holder along with my brother. Both my girls are hockey fans, do not call them puck bunnies! They hate that saying, they know the game better than some guys out there and get mad when they hear people talking hockey that have no clue about the game.

Lets GO DEVILS! Don't count us out yet!! LOL....

 

[NuggyBuggy]

I like curling and think it is an easier sport for all people to play as you don't need to know how to skate or handle a puck.

Curling may be fun but I have a hard time thinking of it as a sport anymore than I could think of bowling, shuffleboard or darts as sports. 

I love playing hockey but I don't get much enjoyment from watching it.  I much prefer watching the NFL or NBA to the NHL.

 

[greg mann]

NJ Devils fan and season ticket holder along with my brother. Both my girls are hockey fans, do not call them puck bunnies! [size=13pt]They hate that saying, they know the game better than some guys out there and get mad when they hear people talking hockey that have no clue about the game.[/size]Lets GO DEVILS! Don't count us out yet!! LOL....

You mean like: the NBC announcers?

 

[Frank Pellow]

The other day I was reading in the paper that they predict that as an adult participation sport, curling will one day surpass hockey in Canada as our baby boomer population ages.

Get out of town!!! No way LOL.

I love hockey and watch way too much of it. Need a TV in my shop or something I can hang around my neck so I can watch games while I work.

I like curling and think it is an easier sport for all people to play as you don't need to know how to skate or handle a puck.

I grew up on the prairies where everyone curls and bonspiels are held every second weekend so it is very popular and a great community builder. Just don't think it will surpass hockey in Canada

Dan Clermont

Dan, note that Kevin said adult participation sport not  most popular sport.  I expect that already more adults particiapte in curling than in ice hockey in Canada.  I am quite typical of such adults, having stopped palying hockey masy yearws ago, but still curling from time to time.
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[Frank Pellow]

I like curling and think it is an easier sport for all people to play as you don't need to know how to skate or handle a puck.

Curling may be fun but I have a hard time thinking of it as a sport anymore than I could think of bowling, shuffleboard or darts as sports. 

I love playing hockey but I don't get much enjoyment from watching it.  I much prefer watching the NFL or NBA to the NHL.

If you ever curled in a serious game, you would know that it is a sport.

 

[Kevin D.]

I like curling and think it is an easier sport for all people to play as you don't need to know how to skate or handle a puck.

Curling may be fun but I have a hard time thinking of it as a sport anymore than I could think of bowling, shuffleboard or darts as sports. 

I love playing hockey but I don't get much enjoyment from watching it.  I much prefer watching the NFL or NBA to the NHL.

If you ever curled in a serious game, you would know that it is a sport.

I've never curled, but it is definitely a sport imo.  Admittedly, it is amazing sometimes what the sports channels try to pass off as a sport nowadays.  I get annoyed when I see "Poker" being colour coded in whatever TV listing I may be using as a "sport", and although I love darts, I know it's not a sport either.  Now bowling is hardly a parlour game.  Why wouldn't that be a sport? 

I could argue that soccer (or football as it's known over the pond) is not a sport, but a form of acting rather than a sport as it has evolved over the last few decades.  Just can't watch a "sport" with so much diving and mama crying any moreso than watching a sport with excessive levels of uneccesary violence, such as the fighting in hockey.  At least in hockey, when the games matter such as in the playoffs, the fighting minimizes whereas in soccer, the bigger the game, the "sport" diminishes to the "acting" on the pitch.

 

[nickao]

Sport: An activity involving physical exertion and skill that is governed by a set of rules or customs and often undertaken competitively.

If archery is a sport and bowling is a sport and golfing is a sport, how the heck can darts not be a sport. Darts is a sport.  Darts actually takes physical eye hand coordination more than is needed for everyday life.

Sport: A sport is an organized, competitive, entertaining, and skillful activity requiring commitment, strategy, and fair play, in which a winner can be defined by objective means. It is governed by a set of rules or customs.

In my mind Curling is definitely a sport.   Darts is definitely a sport(as much as golfing or bowling are).  

Cards and board games are classified as a Mind Sports.

 

[tjbier]

As a young teenager watching McCarty whip on lemeiux made me a fan forever, along with
the smooth as silk Stevey Y was always a great watch.  My moms family lives in Canada
And obviously had an influance in my growing up loving the game. When I was little and started
 skating with those 2 bladed skates on the pond, we had 2 right handed stick and my older bros got those, I
got the lefty stick, I'm not lefty at anything but hockey, played all through high school that way to.

Oh ya, GO WINGS  [big grin]

 

[Brice Burrell]

......I like curling and think it is an easier sport for all people to play as you don't need to know how to skate or handle a puck.....

Now we know why you like curling. [tongue]

 

[NuggyBuggy]

If you ever curled in a serious game, you would know that it is a sport.

Leaving the rather arrogant assumption that I have never curled slide, why is that ? Because curling can be difficult ? Because it can be tiring ?  As far as I am concerned, any activity where at the recreational level alcohol consumption is considered almost mandatory is not a sport.

I would submit that any criteria that would classify curling as sport would also so classify darts, shuffleboard, foosball, marbles, "Pop-a-shot", pinball, various card games like "Speed" and any number of video games.  All of these meet another poster's advanced definition of sport requiring "physical exertion" and are governed by a set of rules.   Does this mean "Guitar Hero" is a sport ? How about speed-eating ?

Just because an activity may be tiring (though judging by the profiles of many championship curlers, an athletic physique is not a determining prerequisite), and difficult to achieve at the highest level does not - IMHO - make it a sport.

 

[Deke]

Haven't checked this thread in months!

Frank, of course I know of Howe, Sawchuck, Lindsay... I just didn't want to rub it in. People hate the Wings, for their success, enough as it is.  [big grin] Still, even those all those retired numbers hang at the Joe, it is kind of hard to pick them out from all those banners...

I of course, also know of "Rocket Richard" though way before my time. There was a movie about him a little while ago. It wasn't bad as hockey movies go. Did you see it? I think it was called, "The Rocket." Here it is:
The Rocket Trailer