I was thrilled one year when I was younger when not only did my brothers get hockey sticks for Christmas - but I did too!

I like ice hockey but it's a frustrating game to watch. It's hard to keep your eyes on both the puck and the players and too much time passes between scoring in hockey. There are usually more fights than there are points.

I've always loved sports and hockey is a sport I play as much as I can. I love it. In a weird way it's like church and therapy and exercise all rolled up into one. I mean when I play hockey I don't think about anything.

I think we have our sports within our own culture that are huge with baseball football basketball and hockey. Those are the sports in America that we grow up with and soccer isn't really there yet.

I also developed an interest in sports and played in informal games at a nearby school yard where the neighborhood children met to play touch football baseball basketball and occasionally ice hockey.

I love extreme sports I like snowboarding and motorcross and rollerblading and hockey.

Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns.

All hockey players are bilingual. They know English and profanity.

I went to a fight the other night and a hockey game broke out.

The biggest thing we get out of it is seeing the kids smile. And hopefully we will also see that the lessons we're teaching - not only the fundamentals of hockey but also the life values - are sinking in.