GODreau13
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Why Do NHL Players Spit Out Water?
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Because they want to have an hydrated mouth yet don't want to drink all this water.
If you drink a bunch of water playing hockey it makes you feel terrible .
Spitting it out does a thing called carb rinsing and is supposed to help your performance without giving you that bloated feeling . I'm sure they were never going to ship the water they spit out to Africa or something anyways .
Drinking cold water can cause stomach cramps during high intensity exercise. Spitting instead rinses the mouth gets rid of the dryness or mucus in the mouthguard while still slightly rehydrating.
I'd imagine there's a fair amount of guys that spit because they're chewing tobacco, too, but I'd say most of it is what Seanaconda said.
They are playing in a building that consumes energy, which could provide half of Africa with electricity but somehow OP is worried about water.
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When you factor in the ice, air conditioning, and zambonis, players spitting probably accounts for 0.0001% of the water used during an NHL season lol.
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Why is OP posting on HFboards when he could have sponsored an african family instead
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It's always something thats bothered me too OP, just not for the same reasons. Yes its wasteful, but I always thought the hygiene factor was a bigger issue. Especially in the fall/winter when you hear about "a bug going around the room" and good teams go on losing streaks because everyone has the flu. Spitting mouthfuls of fluid all over the place spreads germs and undoubtedly leads to some of those illness outbreaks.
Also - the following two posts are correct:
When I was in the desert my canteens would get pretty hot - so I got used to drinking hot water. It's quite nice actually, it hydrates you faster and more efficiently because your body doesn't have to waste energy 'heating' up the water to body temp. Plus I never got cramps or felt bloated after chugging hot canteens. Would be interesting to see a team try doing hot water bottles instead or conversely, give everyone red Gatorade and just track the splash patterns and see how gross the bench area looks after they use it as a group spittoon.
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The direct use of water is over 200 liters a day for Canadian (obviously way way more when you consider indirect use).
Not flushing one time for a pee would let you spit 3.5 gallon of water and you would be even. What you drink or spit is irrelevant in water volume usage.
It take what 50 to 150 liter to make one liter of beer, the spectator drinking is beer is consuming much more water than all the player spit.
That would put it in perspective:
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I always see players squirt out water before using it, I am guessing this is because other players also use the same water bottle and they are afraid they are going to get cooties or something from using it (even though no players drinks directly from the bottle)
Probably just habit to see if the lids on right and it won’t dump it all over their faces. Due to either pranks at practice or someone just not screwing the cap on right.
Do people think water disappears when we drink it? No.. it eventually goes back into the water cycle and gets recycled. Very little water is wasted in the truest sense of the word. Now, we can talk about whether the water is being used efficiently but unless you’re in the middle of a desert it’s not the biggest deal. Water is one of the top 2-3 most abundant molecules in the entire known universe.
Players spit water to keep the ice in good shape. If players didn't spit water, periods would only last ten minutes as the zambonis would need to come out more often.
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Khelandros
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Who are these scrubs chewing tobacco while playing hockey??
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The carbon footprint equivalent in energy used to carry the players in airplanes over the course of a season could probably feed africa for years. And the f***ers travel in chartered flights.
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