Ridiculous things you used to think about hockey

[Reindl87]

I thought the Czech Republique Was the only country to play hockey with a black puck, while the rest of the World plays with an Orange ball.

 

[Kshahdoo]

I used to think defensemen must be good defensively above all, and now I see how wrong I was...

 

[Reverend Mayhem]

Some beauties from before I followed hockey include most memorably, thinking the Vancouver Canucks were the best team because Stanley Park and Stanley Cup are named after the same guy.

 

[TheTotalPackage]

I thought the hockey I watched on TV was a video game made up of characters. It wasn't until I went to my first game as a 5-year old that I realized it was played by real people.

 

[Dutronc]

Me and my friend belived that Eric Perrin was a traitor cause he left his BFF Martin St. Louis alone in Tampa.

*He was just not good enoigh to a play top 6 role sadly.

 

[IdleTraveller]

I came to hockey late as a Brit, so I remember watching my first hockey thinking the game must be far too fast to have any kind of team structure or formation. I know better now but I'm still amazed at how fast the game is, and still wonder how the hell any players manage to make any good plays whatsoever in the split seconds that they have.

On a more light-hearted note, a friend told me to start watching hockey because the players were hot and given to homoerotic displays, particularly after goals. As a straight woman who had grown up with football/soccer, I have been very disappointed in the severe lack of both of these qualities [padding/helmets and broken teeth don't help here tbh]. In retrospect, I think she was trolling me...

 

[vadim sharifijanov]

Philadelphia's logo was actually a flying P.

it’s not?

 

[Moncherry]

it’s not?

It is.

Philadelphia Flyers - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[blundluntman]

I used to think the c on the jersey stood for “center” and that the A’s stood for “athlete “ which was basically the 2 wingers on the same line

 

[vadim sharifijanov]

It is.

Philadelphia Flyers - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

ah oops i misunderstood your post and took you as saying you used to think it was a P but now realize it’s not.

reading too fast on this tiny screen

 

[Bard Marchand]

I used to think that ice rinks were actually 5-6 feet deep of frozen water like a swimming pool lol

 

[GMR]

The sumo wrestler goalie.

 

[jetsforever]

Pretty sure when I was very young I thought hockey rinks and football/soccer fields were of comparable size

 

[Sam de Mtl]

When I was a toddler, I thought the red light was connected to the back of the net and the puck would set off a censor that would turn on the light to signal goal. Eventually I learned that there was someone sitting behind the goal and pushing a button. Same with the scoreboard, I thought it would censor a goal and mechanically add a point.

tbh, it feels like it should be like that. At least today that would be easily doable. Don't rely on the ref seeing it or camera angles catching it whether the puck crosses the line or not.

 

[Clark Kellogg]

Players would fake injuries just before the TDL so they wouldn’t get traded.
Ridiculous me.

 

[MetalheadPenguinsFan]

That the NHL wasn’t bush league