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Yes, it's a wonderful, wonderful world.
Now, what are your rants, this morning?
Veni, vidi, vici.
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Being Canadian, it is clearly in my veins. I watch every single match of my beloved home team (Montreal) and I play at least once a week.
How many of you out there like it as much (or not as much)? Any software dev who's also a hockey fan?
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One of the guys I work with plays hockey regularly, and I believe he watches the pros quite a bit.
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Where is he from? Is he a coder?
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He's a programmer, originally from New York I believe.
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Ha nice. The Rangers are 2nd out of the 30 teams in the NHL that have the most money with a valuation of 850M$. I don't know how it compares to other sports teams, though.
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I believe you are referring to ice hockey here. For me, never seen it and probably never will.
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0 - it aint rugby
Bryce
MCAD
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Soooooo, how many of your own teeth have you still got then?
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Luckily enough, I don't play pro so there's a mandatory mouth piece and full-face mask rule that helps me keep all 32 of them at the right place!
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I heard if you buy a hockey ticket in Phoenix, they give you a meal combo, some Coyotes props and a key to the city. All that for 19 dollars.
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Maybe, but still not worth it.
We do go to some Diamondbacks games with the meal combo though ($17?).
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Of course, they're mostly all Canadians.
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One of my colleagues is a national referree for "women teams". Others play regularly.. I can't because of a broken knee (birth problem). I like watching it sometimes, prefer soccer (football) so..
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I am from good old Switzerland (southern part, Italian speaking).. It's a tipicall mountain area, so hockey is quite popular here..
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Over here the scale goes from England to Finland.
It's fun watching live, not very fun on the telly and I basically never get to watch it live due to the exorbitant prices on tickets.
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I don't know how much it costs back where you are, but here the average price for a game ticket is around 75$. The games are always sold-out. ALWAYS.
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About the same, so I guess I'm less Canadian then you are.
Politicians are always realistically manoeuvering for the next election. They are obsolete as fundamental problem-solvers.
Buckminster Fuller
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Well I am born and raised in Turkey. I didnt't have interest in hockey since 2006. As you know Turkey is not a country where hockey is popular. People love soccer here a lot and they are so passionate about it like Canadians are for hockey.
But I have met my best friend in 2006 and since then I am a Canucks fan.. Well you must have guessed he is from Vancouver
Right now I cannot watch all the games since I am back from LA and the matches are like at 4-5 AM. I watch them from tape or the highlights.
Tho, when I was living in LA, I tried going every single game of Canucks vs Sharks/ Skanks.., Kings or Ducks..
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Though I am British, I thoroughly enjoy it - keeping up with an 80-odd game regular season is hard with the time difference is very difficult though so I'd place myself somewhere just beneath US-ian interest, as I understand it's not as popular there as the land of Canadia
There is an ok-ish semi-pro league in the UK that garners a surprising amount of interest, most people would be surprised to find.
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