Hockey

Hockey is a sport played on ice where the intention is to score a goal using a stick and puck. This sport has a different meaning to different people.

For someone in an office position in the sport, such as general manager, they may see the players as numbers, per say. They are paying each player and decide if the given player is playing well enough and deserves for the team to be paying them. If they don’t like the game play they see, they trade people. These business men and women may have a less sentimental approach to the sport.

 For fans, it is a connection to a city and a passion for the sport. The fans support their chosen team and celebrate goals, and mourn losses. They are the ones that get chills when their favorite player scores a game winning goal and that mope for days when their team gets eliminated from the playoffs.

Players have a different outlook than the fans. They have more on the line every game. For them, they feel responsibility for every minute spent on the ice. Each win is a personal victory, and each loss is, well, partially their fault. But players understand it is a team effort and move on from the losses and work up to the ultimate victory, in the NHL, The Stanley Cup. For an NHL player, having their name engraved into the Stanley Cup means they accomplished what they have worked towards their entire lives.