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Ever since I saw my first NHL game at hockey heaven, aka Bell Centre in Montreal on October 23rd, 2003, I hooked on hockey. I had no idea what hockey was (it was very minor sports in my home country, Japan), so my husband gave me some lessons while watching the game that night. I even didn't know the black thing on ice was called "puck" and it was just too hard to follow the puck on ice while watching my first NHL game! Since then, I watched many hockey games on every level, college, AHL, CHL, NHL and youth hockey and that's the only sport I truly enjoy watching both on TV and at the rink.
This mini hockey 101 series will show you some hockey rules. If you are not hockey fan yet, hope you will learn the idea and start watching hockey! If you are already a hockey fan, way to go! Let's be a hockey fan with class, praising both teams with good play, not abusing the opponent team and their fans!
Trash talk
Often hockey players chat with opponent players on ice before the game or even during the game, many of them are very friendly. Opponent players are not enemies, they might wear different jerseys but after all we are all hockey families and without an opponent team, there is no hockey game!
But a debate over some alleged trash talk between the Pittsburgh Penguins and Nashville Predators has become one of the biggest stories in the Stanley Cup Final in 2017.
At the end of the Predators' 5-1 Game 3 win, Predators defensemen P.K. Subban began jawing with Penguins Center Sidney Crosby before referees pulled the two apart.
Subban was asked after the game by NBCSN's Pierre McGuire about what the two players said to one another, and Subban said Crosby told him his breath smelled.
On Game 4, fans from both teams made many signs about breath mint and it was fun watching the signs (since both teams are not my team!).
Penguins ended up winning the Cup two consecutive years, and recently Subban admitted he made up the trash talk story. I personally want to say we don’t need trash talks in hockey but what is your thought?