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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Storminator" data-source="post: 215341" data-attributes="member: 305">I'll weigh in here. I didn't give a hoot for hockey until we moved to Boston and my son started playing. I really think you need to go to hockey games to "get it." Now that I've been to many games, I can watch it on TV and get something out of it. Hockey still doesn't translate to the screen well, the plays are too distributed (compare a typical hockey play to football's start at the line of scrimmage where you can see every player at once), and often the guys off screen are important.I think soccer suffers because there isn't a sense that something is happening. I'm not talking about scoring, but the sense that your team is making progress, even if they aren't scoring. If your hockey team keeps the puck in the other teams zone for most a period, and you watch the enemy flail while they can't clear it, you know you're in for good things. In baseball, if your team is getting hits, you can anticipate scoring; you can watch the pitcher wear down; you see hitters adjust each time thru the line up. In football, your team gains yards, consumes the clock, and your running game punishes the linebackers. You can watch receivers setting up DBs and watch the coverages change. There's a lot happening in all these sports that isn't scoring. Soccer doesn't have nearly the sense of progress. To me it's like watch an excrutiatingly slow hockey game. If I want what's good about soccer, I'll watch hockey, because the speed of the game is much greater (how long does it take a soccer player to go from one end of the field to the other? Hockey players can cover the ice in 3 or 4 seconds)PS</blockquote>

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