They are advertising a hockey network in Canada. Where you can spend the whole week

[applegrove]

watching ever hockey game played. I'm thinking the wives might just take issue with this. Is this what the world is coming to? People sitting in front of some screen all day, every day.... who am I to talk really.

[Avalux]

1. What wives? I'm a female, and love hockey. In fact, I have NHL Center Ice.....

and I can watch every game every day through Roku if I want, but I usually just watch my Pens.

[applegrove]

2. My bad.

[ScreamingMeemie]

3. Thank you for this post. My niece is on her way to compete in the U18 National

Championships in March.

[Avalux]

11. Good for her!

I hope she kcks butt! What an experience that wll be for her. What team and what position does she play?

[MiddleFingerMom]

9. My buddy in the Philly area married a woman from the Pittsburgh area...

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[Avalux]

12. By state law, Pens and Flyers fans are mortal enemes.

What a couple...that they could overcome such insurmountable odds!

[MiddleFingerMom]

13. I HATE it when I can't find my reading glasses, but...

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[Avalux]

14. Ha! Do you have a problem with Germans who capitalize all their nouns??

Usually I do capitalize all my nouns, but my caps key is broken and only works every now and then.

[applegrove]

15. I use to love hockey during the playoffs. Not any more.

[Avalux]

16. Why?

And why did you only love it during the playoffs?

[applegrove]

17. I think the playoffs are just that more intense. Plus the star players are all out and I loved

those star atheletes like Gretzky. And why I don't watch anymore has to do with me having post traumatic stress disorder I think. I'm on meds for that. My brain has changed a lot in the last 16 years, hell 24 years. I've forgotten the economics I studied in University (I'm 46) and replaced that with a love of Democratic politics. Recently I've become afraid of driving (I almost can't sit in the front seat of the car when it is moving and don't drive). I use to love watching risky sports like figure skaing or horse jumping. Now I skip that and cannot participate in adrenaline type sports or amusement. I hardly watch any tv execpt for news oriented shows. I'm not as empathetic and nurturing as I used to be. And much more. I'm growing in many ways so it is not all a bad thing. But the changes are many.

[Avalux]

18. Oh I'm so sorry to hear.....

I understand what you're saying though, and that you can't watch anymore. My favorte player was Lemieux and now, with the young guys, I love Crosby but he's out with due to recurrng concussion symptoms. The best player in the league. I don't think we've fully understood the problems contact sports cause for the athletes.

I wish you all the best, and that you fnd a way to overcome your difficulties.

[applegrove]

19. Lemieux was wonderful in the 1987 Canada Cup. Scored with a Russian guy, literally, on his back.

[MiddleFingerMom]

4. WTP?

[ohiosmith]

5. Hahahaha!

[applegrove]

6. What does WTP mean? What the Puck?

[MiddleFingerMom]

8. Exactly. You're probably not as familiar with the Canadian language.

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[applegrove]

10. LOL!

[Chan790]

7. Reason #41 I'm moving to Canada...

as soon as I can find a hot Quebecois lawyer to marry me. Preferably one that wants an at-home spouse...it'll be hard to work with all that hockey to watch.

[Brickbat]

20. I'd hit that. I'm a woman, I played in a rec league, and my daughter plays.

Hockey is what we do.

[applegrove]

21. I stand corrected then.

[laundry_queen]

22. 'nother woman who thinks that would be cool.

I used to be severely obsessed with hockey growing up. Hard not to be growing up in Edmonton during the Gretzky years. I wasn't allowed to play organized hockey (my parents didn't want to 'waste money' on hockey for a girl) but I managed to go to my brother's practices and showed up at the outdoor rink an awful lot to play shinny with the guys.

I now have to settle for HNIC and the odd Oilers game when I happen to get free tickets. Don't have as much time to follow every game, but enjoy watching as much as I can, when I can.