learn more about hockey

Banana blade, power play, icing, Wayne Gretzky, the crease.

My DH and I were watching TV and saw some Blackhawks at the Red Wings. I started asking questions and these are a few of the things we talked about.

It’s all very interesting! Yay!

Of course I have always known who Wayne Gretzky is. Maybe I just didn’t know how utterly spectacular he is for the sport.

Well, baseball is going into the postseason, and while I’ll enjoy that, it’s time for me to have a new tribe to attach myself to, to have a wonderful diversion during the winter.

This is going to be a new challenge because I understand the strategy of baseball, basketball, American football, and volleyball. I guess it’s most like basketball, with the face-off like a tip-off, penalty like a foul, both have goals, and the players going from offense to defense and back again reactively, within a split second, depending on the possession of the puck or ball.