Movie Times Take Back Seat To Hockey Playoffs!

Recently, I saw some great movie trailers. There are a number of movies I'd really like to watch at the box office. But, I have more important things to attend to... playoff hockey!

I’ve always loved this time of year. The NHL’s regular season is over and the anticipation of my team’s run to Lord Stanley’s Cup takes hold.

The feeling about the NHL regular season is that it is just a dress rehearsal, a necessary evil, in order to get to the ‘second season’ where it really matters. Even though there are rivalries between teams, I have to admit that the regular season is heavy on hyperbole than have-to-see-tv. Therefore, I generally watch movies more than hockey from October to April.

But, even my wife is on board at this prospect of our city’s team playing for, and winning, all the marbles. Now, when I say it’s playoff time, she quite naturally allows me to watch as much hockey as I need! What a beautiful thing - both my wife and playoffs of course!

I channel surf from broadcast to broadcast all things playoff hockey related, even watching those tv personalities whom I’d normally ignore during hockey’s regular season. From player injury speculation, to predictions, I relish every new playoff fact and even not so new, playoff musing.

The Stanley Cup playoffs has been called a war of attrition and its trophy the most difficult to win in all of professional sport. It is hard to argue. None of the other pro sports including baseball, football, soccer, basketball, puts its players through a more intense and sustained, physically and emotionally demanding playoff test!

All sports fans recognize pro soccer (football) players can run miles but never have a body pushing against them for prolonged times, nor do they truly endure continued physicality from an opponent. Hockey players do not have the luxury of resorting to a feigned injury only to bounce back up after receiving treatment via the magic sponge.

Pro basketballers play a very physical game - see Dwight Howard! However, there doesn’t exist the sustained physicality that pro hockey is built on. And pro ballers don’t get hit on a regular basis - or a foul is called, discouraging physicality.

Pro baseball is not even in the same league, pun intended, as pro hockey, in terms of the physical and emotional toll a player must endure during the playoffs. In baseball, players fight boredom more than overcoming physical and mental limits reached during the playoffs. When was the last time you saw a hockey player goofing around with rally caps, hot foot, and childish high-five routines? When was the last time you saw a pear-shape like ManRam or Prince Fielder in a pro hockey sweater?

The closest pro sport to compare with pro hockey playoff rigours would be pro football because of its physicality. However, even pro footballers ‘get a blow’ while sitting on the bench for a relatively long period when trading between offensive to defensive sides of the ball.

No, for me, no other pro sports playoffs matches the intensity, speed, skill, and physicality as the Stanley Cup Playoffs!

Goodbye to mundane movies and hello Lord Stanley’s hockey... and the Holy Grail, I hope!

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