Profanity In Hockey

[doniceage]

In his revealing book, “Pavel Bure: The Riddle Of The Russian Rocket”, author Kerry Banks rather exhaustively discusses the impact that Bure’s movie star appearance had on his perception, both with the public and inside the locker room. According to Banks, the fact that both women and men went wild for Bure during “Pavel-Mania” for some reasons unrelated to hockey, made some close-minded people uneasy.

Banks goes on to make the claim that a hockey locker room, is probably “not the most enlightened sector of society.” It’s this last point that seems to be especially relevant when examining the sickening display of bigotry that took place in London, and the ironic turn of events between Wayne Simmonds and Sean Avery.

http://octopusthrower.com/2011/09/28...ity-in-hockey/

[centrehice]

Profanity in Hockey is like weapon cleaning in the Marines.

Hockey is the only Sport where you can actually get personal with a referee in uttering a profanity, and not be guaranteed to be thrown out.

Trust me, in all other sports if you call a referee, his mother, or his sister, or his wife a dirty so and so, you will be gone. In Hockey, not all the time.

[bojohnson]

That's cause hockey has cool refs
They live a breathe the game too, and laugh

Trust me I ref

But ya hockey's just that way

[mugatu471]

Whether it's right or not is beside the question, but profanity in hockey will always be there. No other sport is it more engraved in the game.

[thesnake87]

Whether it's right or not is beside the question, but profanity in hockey will always be there. No other sport is it more engraved in the game.

Exactly... it's just in the nature of the game. It's like taking fighting out, you simply can't.