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Is Ice Hockey Bigger Than The Game Of Life?
By Johnny McKenzie, Thu Dec 8th
Why do we love the game of hockey so much?
On TV we see financial problems and people are starving. We seeproblems in our healthcare system and there are problems in theschools our children go to.
Everyday we face this, but do we take action to make a change?
If I speak for myself, I sometimes do take action when there isa local problem that really concerns me, but when it comes tonationwide or worldwide issues, I most often don’t care.
What I care about is the game and I don’t think it’s a goodthing to be that narrow minded.
How can one love and care about a game as simple as hockey whenwe have all these problems in the world?
The salaries of all the players in the league would probably beenough to solve the starvation in the third world. They make alot of money, but there are people in other professions thatmake more.
Do you think that there’s to much money in hockey and that itcould be used for a better purpose?
Maybe, but on the other hand, the money the players makes is histrue market value. There is a break even between supply anddemand or otherwise no team would sign him and the money wouldend up in the pocket of the team owners.
One thing I think the sport have done well is the founding ofthe Hockey Fights Cancer organization. If you compare it to adisease like cancer, it isn’t that important and I think it’svery well done that it raises money for cancer research.
We fans all followed Mario Lemiux’s and Saku Kouivo’s battlewith the disease and those guys sure must have love hockeybecause of the way they fought back.
How can you even think about returning to the game aftersomething like that?
I guess the answer is that it do play an important part in ourlives. What kind of force makes a young player put the time andeffort in that is necessarily to reach glory?
Isn’t the time spent on the rink (or the stands for us fans)better spent on studying to become a doctor or lawyer? Somethingthat really matters or can you say that it is of equalimportance?
I have given these questions some thoughts and I simply don’tknow. Maybe hockey is bigger than life.
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