absary@watdragon.UUCP (Al Sary) (03/17/86)
A few weeks ago I heard about the recent business of recording and selling videos of hockey fights (it may not be so recent, but it was new to me). It didn't surprise me a bit that this business started in the US, but the article I read mentioned that a company based in Saskatchewan (I had to look that one up) got into selling fight videos as well. I am wondering how much other people know about this, and what people think about these videos. I can't really imagine anyone sitting in front of the VCR and watching 2 hours of fights (although I don't know how long they actually are). Several postings on the net a while ago seemed to indicate the increasing popularity of hockey in the US (or at least hockey related movies); I hope that's not the side of hockey which is making it more popular. One comment about one of the recent hockey movies (I can't recall it's title, something about the young and the wrestling); I say ad clips from the movie, and one thing that stuck in my mind was a bodycheck that reminded me of the bodychecks in the movie Slapshot.
jeff@dciem.UUCP (Jeff Richardson) (03/24/86)
> Several > postings on the net a while ago seemed to indicate the increasing popularity > of hockey in the US (or at least hockey related movies); I hope that's not > the side of hockey which is making it more popular. [referring to fights] If fights are making hockey more popular, I say that's fine. Fights will get people going to the games, then the speed, finesse and other hockey skills and competition will keep them going. -- Jeff Richardson, DCIEM, Toronto (416) 635-2073 {linus,ihnp4,uw-beaver,floyd}!utcsri!dciem!jeff {allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!dciem!jeff