Which is #1 on your list

I'm not much of a Hockey fan myself

 

Wheres the Poll?

 

I am a fan of both.. but hockey is in my blood.

FUKN LEAFS!

 

Is hockey still a sport?

 

Hockey for me. I hate basketball.

 

I only watch Hockey when the playoffs starts and my Favorite team is the Senators.

Basketball is my game and I've stood by the Raptors since 1996

 

cant vote on that.. love to watch hockey but love to play basketball

 

hockey is in my dna. loved playing junior travel teams until i got banned from usa hockey for life.

 

with all due respect to hockey...this isnt really a fair comparison....

but id still like to hear how did UGOTZ'D got banned form playing the sport on the US lol

 

That reminds me. I need to get tickets to the Rockets game.

 

I'm not from CANADA, so I'm vote Basketball.

 

I was playing in a travel game back when i was 15. the game got out of hand and the physical part really got amped up. i had seen one of my teammates get checked from behind into the boards and carried off the ice on a stretcher. i started my shift and an opposing player dumped the puck into our zone. as i was skating to it i felt an opposing player slashing at my hip with his stick. i knew i was about to get checked from behind as well. i turned around and did a two-handed baseball swing to the kids neck, hitting him in the jugular and causing him to fall face forward knocked-out. that action started a brawl between teams and his dad came out onto the ice trying to kick my ***. haven't been able to play ever since. at the time i was being scouted by the atl thrashers to play in their developmental league but i pissed my chance away by letting my temper get to me.

 

-it's a much more physical, rougher sport that is very much about physical intimidation and imposing your physical will on an opponent (like football or boxing)

-the hitting

-the fighting (yes, it does serve a purpose but that's for another post)

-it's more difficult to play; imagine trying to handle a tiny puck on a stick while not looking at it (you have to keep your head up in hockey, if you don't, you're gonna get run) all while being on thin blades of steel standing on ice while 6'4 250 lbs. monsters try to slam into you

-scoring a goal or making a save is much more difficult that draining a 20 ft. jumper

-basketball is too offense oriented, they score on just about every possession; hockey is defense oriented in that you really have to work hard on a possession to score a goal

-hockey players are by and large humble team guys and, besides Eric Lindros, I can't think of any whiny diva hockey players; basketball is FULL of whiny divas

-while both sports have guaranteed contracts, the vast majority of hockey players don't loaf; some basketball players loaf all the time in almost every basketball game I've seen (college exempted)

-the Stanley Cup is the oldest North American sports trophy and unlike the Vince Lombardi Trophy, the Joseph Naismith Trophy, an Olympic gold medal, the World Cup, et. al., there is only one Stanley Cup

 

With all due respect, you broke the code. Like kicking, clawing, biting, or scratching, you are NEVER supposed to use your stick in that manner. If I were on the other team, I would have been first off the bench to have a run at you and I don't blame the pro scouts for dropping you from the list.

 

Basketball is a great sport. If you suck at it, of course you won't like it.

 

I don't either. as i said at the last part of my previous post, i pissed my shot away because of my temper.

 

Basketball is boring.

 

both have their appeal, so i dunno why there's the comparison. both sports were invented by Canadians though :P

i'm probably going to get flamed for this but i'm going to say it anyways.

Why is american football called football? you only really kick the ball in 3 occasions...International football is where it's at anyways :P

 

Raptors!!!!!!!!!

 

your not much of a man