GDT: Group B - May 11 - Finland (3) vs Hungary (0)

[Milansdad]

all across the Finnish media and sites n forums is a big appreciation for team Hungary they said their game was A+ and the Finnish team a-

Wow! It's good to hear. I wish we could play a similar type of hockey to Finland. Fast on skate, with stick and in the head. Hopefully we can close the gap soon.

 

[Milansdad]

It's anyone's game.

Well, almost. But I bet you imagined it to be a lot different than it actually was.

 

[Mestaruus]

Well, almost. But I bet you imagined it to be a lot different than it actually was.

Of course. Hungary got a moral victory there. Both teams won, win-win.

I'm a team sport nut. Hockey is my main venue, hands down, but I actually watch all kinds of games across the field. Basketball, soccer, volleyball, floorball... It's beneficial. One can draw teachings and positive experiences from all of them to hockey rinks as well.

Heck, I even found myself watching goalball when the Paralympics were on.

Goalball is taking it too far. I'll accept curling over that and floorball is meh. Maybe Finland-Sweden final is the only game per every 2 year or so I'll watch.

Yeah soccer would be high on my list as well if Finland was any good at it and still is third after hockey and basketball on my list.

 

[FiLe]

Goalball is taking it too far. I'll accept curling over that and floorball is meh. Maybe Finland-Sweden final is the only game per every 2 year or so I'll watch.

Yeah soccer would be high on my list as well if Finland was any good at it and still is third after hockey and basketball on my list.

To this day, I don't exactly know why I watched those goalball games. I just did.

What comes to ranking all these sports based on entertainment value, I gotta say I don't blame anyone who digs basketball. Even over hockey.

 

[Mestaruus]

I gotta say I don't blame anyone who digs basketball. Even over hockey.

Those are the 2 most entertaining team sports. Hard to compare which is better when it comes down to entertainment. Soccer isn't nearly as entertaining. It's like comparing MMA to boxing, boxing being boring and usually 12 rounds of time wasted like soccer.

 

[kabidjan18]

Those are the 2 most entertaining team sports. Hard to compare which is better when it comes down to entertainment. Soccer isn't nearly as entertaining. It's like comparing MMA to boxing, boxing being boring and usually 12 rounds of time wasted like soccer.

Yeah man, that's why we got like football and basketball as our sports in America, cause soccer ain't all that. We got goalball and floorball to I just never heard of them.

It's weird why all the European countries that aren't so good at soccer still have it as their number one sport like why not branch out? Same with the South American countries but like China, used to love soccer, too bad at it ok love basketball now. Maybe Finland, not great at soccer, ok let's give Hockey the focus now. Put a hockey rink in every city, not a soccer pitch.

 

[Mestaruus]

It's weird why all the European countries that aren't so good at soccer still have it as their number one sport like why not branch out?

Just the cheapest sport to play = more players I guess. Hockey and I guess American football costs more equipment wise. Basketball is cheap like soccer and much more entertaining. American football would probably be up there as one of the most exciting sports (along with hockey and basketball) for me if it was more popular globally.

 

[kabidjan18]

Just the cheapest sport to play = more players I guess. Hockey and I guess American football costs more equipment wise. Basketball is cheap like soccer and much more entertaining. American football would probably be up there as one of the most exciting sports (along with hockey and basketball) for me if it was more popular globally.

That's the one big drawback for hockey is price. Are there places in Finland where the lakes freeze? I even wonder why like rugby isn't more popular in a lot of places. It's pretty cheap, lacks in my opinion a lot of the best elements of football but still a fun sport. Obviously hockey in Finland should be like the A sport because they're so good at it/they're not amazing at soccer, but other places.

 

[Mestaruus]

That's the one big drawback for hockey is price. Are there places in Finland where the lakes freeze? I even wonder why like rugby isn't more popular in a lot of places. It's pretty cheap, lacks in my opinion a lot of the best elements of football but still a fun sport. Obviously hockey in Finland should be like the A sport because they're so good at it/they're not amazing at soccer, but other places.

Yeah there are places where lakes freeze here. Not quite familiar how much it's used for hockey in this country TBH as I live in the south side.

[MOD]

Sometimes it's just that masses drive what becomes most popular and that's soccer vs all other team sports and for Americans, American football vs rugby. I know similar examples in computer games where the worse game of same game genre has bigger player base only because it has this unstoppable mass of people that generate an unstoppable snowball effect when they make their friends play it and create a fake illusion of the worse game being better than the other. Soccer is the same thing in sports.

 

[Urbanskog]

That's the one big drawback for hockey is price. Are there places in Finland where the lakes freeze? I even wonder why like rugby isn't more popular in a lot of places. It's pretty cheap, lacks in my opinion a lot of the best elements of football but still a fun sport. Obviously hockey in Finland should be like the A sport because they're so good at it/they're not amazing at soccer, but other places.

Heh, there's no place in Finland where lakes don't freeze. Even the sea does.