If you've never played Hockey, how did you become interested in the sport?

Question

If you've never played Hockey, how did you become interested in the sport?

Answer 1

i turned on the little 10 or 12 inch black and white tv in our kitchen one day when i was 9 and saw #66 kicking some serious a$$.  that was 1988.  haven't stopped watching since.

Answer 2

join a club

Answer 3

I watched an Ottawa-Toronto playoff game in 1999 or 2000 and Domi took a stupid stick penalty. Then Joseph took a run and dive at a ref. I thought "I've got to keep watching this sport."

Answer 4

My dad and my grandpa both play it and I just like watching it. Plus one room in our house has like a million pictures of people in the NHL and stuff.  

Answer 5

if u start watching it & start playing but really you should like the sport in your heart

Answer 6

By attending games at the Capital Centre (later to become the U.S. Airways Arena) and the MCI Center (later to become the Verizon Center).

GO CAPS!!!

Answer 7

I saw one Leafs game on TV, and I immediately loved them and hockey.  Then my dad took me to an OHL Rangers game and I became hooked.  Now I have seasons tickets.  So just by watching hockey I fell in love with it.

Answer 8

How can u be interested in something if u havent even played

Answer 9

i first got hooked in by playing the videogames. so i watched the actual games to get tips to be better in the videogames and the only games on were the caps and they got really good so i kept watching.

since then i cant stop thinking a bout hockey. also i have won the stanley cup twice in the game with the caps.

Answer 10

You have to see your first couple of games live just to get the feeling for it.  It is a lot easier to understand a game as you watch it and can ask questions.  by your name I'm assuming you are in Louisiana.  The closest team to you I could find is in Biloxi, Mississippi.  The are a part of the ECHL (minor league).  There is also an AHL but they are predominatly in the NE, as well as the NHL where you maybe able to go to a Dallas Stars or Nashville Predators game.  The south is coming around to hockey and there are a few "clubs" at the local ice arenas.  I live in Alabama and can drive up to Huntsville to see minor league hockey and UA has a club team that I keep an eye on.

Answer 11

watching...  

Answer 12

I watched the hurricanes make their cup run in 2006- then started playing hockey. I could already skate though.

Answer 13

My dad was a Rangers fan back when my mom and dad lived in New York.  Then they moved to New Jersey and my dad became a Devils fan because he was living in Jersey now (he wasn't a big Rangers fan to begin with).  Then he got my brother into hockey, and my brother played roller hockey and street hockey, then ice hockey.  I went to his games, and became a fan.  Winning the Stanley Cup in 2000 and 2003 really made me a bigger fan.

Answer 14

My dad decided to be a great dad and force me to watch wings games when i was lil and here i am... a die-hard wings fan!

Answer 15

lived on a lake, played pond hockey with my dad fell in love with it

Answer 16

I live in Toronto. Like they say, Toronto is the heart and soul of hockey, in Canada. Not just that, we talk about NHL so much in our school that it's just unbelievable. You have to like Hockey from you heart really to be a 'true' hockey fan.  

Answer 17

By watching games and following league results and discussing the results with some friends.

Answer 18

If you watch one game, you'll be hooked. That's what happened to me, and now I'm addicted. I was 7. I wish I had the money to play, but it's waaay too expensive.

Answer 19

It was offored as a sport at school so I gave it a go

Answer 20

I saw one game and I realized that I loved the sport

Answer 21

I have played pickup hockey, but only to be sociable - otherwise, I have no interest in it.

Answer 22

watching......and because my nation is in it (pakistan)

Answer 23

You don't have to play hockey to become interested.  I never played before and follow hockey quite a bit.  It helped that where I lived had a minor league team and as the players got called up to the NHL, I had players I could follow.