I am not a big fan of Hockey but I tend to try to understand different cultures and what other people are following. So I started watching Stanley Cup Final Series. I have to admit that I sometimes fell asleep on my sofa watching the games, but after all, I found myself being more and more into the series. All the unfamiliar rules that I could not understand became my knowledge now, and I even know that if you do not play for at least a second during series your name will not be on Stanley Cup even if your team win the series.
As I become more knowledgeable at Hockey and series itself, I am starting to see a twist. Canucks seemed to be a great team when they were playing home games, but it was a totally different story when they were playing away ones. First I thought maybe they were intimidated by the atmosphere and Boston’s home ground advantages. But a lot of my friends and I myself felt that Canucks was just not trying as hard when they were in Boston. Moreover, after I heard that Canucks make at least five million dollars for every home game, I thought that it was maybe more than just home and away matters. It is becoming (or already has become) a fact that politics and business are involved in most of the biggest sports leagues. For sure, playing seven games and four or five games make a huge economic and political difference.
Despite all these doubts and suspicions, I am still hoping that all the players and coaches are asking themselves ‘what is really right?’, and Stanley Cup Final Series is not contaminated whatsoever. And of course, hoping Canucks to win 🙂