Not All Ice Sports Are Created Equal
Photo: Bruce Bennett (Getty) Last night, I, along with several other Deadspin idiots, went to watch the Islanders and Golden Knights play a hockey game. It was my first time watching live hockey and I don’t know a whole lot about the sport, although I gathered from the booing that the house lights failing and play being delayed for 15 minutes was unusual. Without a stable reference, I sat there eating my overpriced chicken tenders and fries and analyzed the hockey as though it was figure skating, an ice sport I understand reasonably well. As my coworkers tried to ignore me and drink their...
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