WHY Do I Watch Hockey??

I watch hockey because:

1. No other sport can match the excitement or intensity of hockey, especially come playoff time.
2. It's played by the greatest athletes in the world....players who can skate up to 30 mph on a quarter inch of steel using a 5 foot long stick to handle a frozen rubber disk which they shoot at 100mph, all while 9 other players on the ice are trying to knock the @$#! out of them.
3. Hockey is the most team-oriented sport of all the major sports. It's 6 guys on the ice all sacrificing personal goals to work towards the betterment of the team.
4. No other sport can match a hockey player's willingness to sacrifice his personal wellbeing to win a game for the team....think Bobby Baun breaking his ankle in game 6 of the Stanley Cup finals but still managing to score the OT winner to force game 7, then playing game 7 on that same broken ankle....only to miss the post-game celebrations b/c he was in the emergency room having his ankle fixed. Injuries are simply an incovenience.
5. There's no joy in winning without the risk of heartbreak from losing.
6. Plus, hockey players are pretty cute, as long as they have most of their teeth. :)

--Adapted from my friend Dan (I don't know whether he thinks hockey players are cute). I asked him why I was putting myself through the pain and agony of being down 2-0 in our second-round playoff series with the Capitals. I guess he's right.