How Hockey Connects Us

Hockey creates human connections in many more ways than one. We all get together to watch our favourite teams play. Even if you don’t play it competitively, it still makes you feel a part of something, a part of a team.  If you do play it, it gives you a sense of belonging. Just being a part of a group that constantly depends off of each other is what really makes you feel useful.

 It creates connection by having to create offensive plays, not only offensive but defensive just as much and ultimately executing the play. Hockey is well known and dominated by Canadians but it’s not easy to dominate an amazing sport like hockey. Hockey is just as well known in other parts of the world as it is in Canada; the reason why we are so good at it is because we have a larger fan base for it. Smaller countries like Belarus for example is a small country, thus having far less hockey players like Canada does.

Either way, hockey is a sport loved by many. We cheer for the same teams but you can’t forget that hockey also creates conflict because realistically, we can’t all cheer for the same team. There are many, many loyal fans out there that could hate your team’s guts. When you meet that person, they’re not going to give you quite the welcome you’ve expected.  Win or lose hockey is hockey and Canada will always show the world who is best at it.

-Darwin Healy