| Which sport is tougher on the body: hockey or soccer?
Posted: 5/15/2007 8:48:39 PM | ^^^ Some excellent NHLers come from Sweden, Finland, Czech Republic...
Go to tsn.ca and have a look at team rosters. You'd be surprised at some of the countries hockey players come from.
So...wrongo,pedro! | |
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| Which sport is tougher on the body: hockey or soccer?
Posted: 5/15/2007 9:27:46 PM | To say that hockey is only important in North America shows a severe lack of knowledge about the sport.
Anybody who watched tonight's Detroit/Anaheim game would not even question which sport is tougher on the body. I said it before and I'll say it again, the velocity on skates, the puck, the sticks, and the boards combined with taking hard hits from the opponent make hockey a much more brutal sport on the body.
Both sports require incredible stamina, but there is no comparison when it comes to true toughness! | |
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| Which sport is tougher on the body: hockey or soccer?
Posted: 5/15/2007 10:27:49 PM | The average soccer player runs approx. 6 miles a game. Oh and about the concussion rate, why don't u look up the name of Brian McBride and see how many concussions he has had in his career. Oh don't forget to read about the metal plates in his face that sets off the metal detectors when he travels by plane! | |
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| Which sport is tougher on the body: hockey or soccer?
Posted: 5/15/2007 10:31:01 PM | | My response about the more hits in a hockey game than in a soccer game, Is because BODY CHECKS is not legal in soccer. If you take a player down hard u can get a yellow card caution/foul or a ejection. | |
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| Which sport is tougher on the body: hockey or soccer?
Posted: 5/15/2007 11:44:37 PM | Concussion rates... how about Eric Lindros. I get a kick out the concussion pool for him - how many games into the season until he is out? His brother had to retire at an early age ( early 20's ) because of concussions. A lot of NHL man-games a year are lost due to concussions - those and knee injuries and groin pulls. At season's end you always hear about all the players going in for bone and ligament repairs. Many careers are ended early because of those and knee problems. A good friend of mine who played in the NHL for a few years ( even won the Cup ) had to retire early from recurring knee problems. Soccer is far from being alone with those kind injuries.
There are certainly a good share of hockey players and even baseball players who set off metal detectors. Lots of limbs being held together by pins and bone splints. Not to mention all the dental work... I doubt there is an NHL team with a full set of teeth between them!
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| Which sport is tougher on the body: hockey or soccer?
Posted: 5/15/2007 11:52:36 PM | | well i don't know which is tougher on the body during play, but i do know for a fact that professional soccer players are some of the healthiest people in the world... They probably have tougher trainer, but hockey is tougher during the games. That's my guess | |
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| Which sport is tougher on the body: hockey or soccer?
Posted: 5/17/2007 7:31:31 AM | yes Ice Hockey is only quite important in North America, even if it is played in Sweden or Finland.
i mean, of course Hockey is followed in Sweden but football gets everyone in front of the TV screen, above all when their National Football Team are involved. similar to any other European country.
Detroit and Anaheim??? well i know that Detroit is a city in the north of USA which has a club called Detroit Pistons so are you now talking about basketball??? what for???and about Anaheim...........please enlighten me | |
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| Which sport is tougher on the body: hockey or soccer?
Posted: 5/17/2007 12:22:29 PM | | Detroit Red Wings and Anaheim Ducks - 2 NHL hockey teams in the final four. Most US cities that have NHL teams also have major league baseball ( MLB ), basketball ( NBA ) and football ( NFL ) teams. Check out tsn.ca. | |
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| Which sport is tougher on the body: hockey or soccer?
Posted: 8/1/2007 12:47:37 PM | Soccer has got to be the pussiest, softest of all team sports.It's not full contact or anywhere close to it. I've watched some Soccer highlights and you actually see guys crying because they got tripped and got a "boo boo".
OP, you should be emberrased for even trying to compare the two in terms of toughness. | |
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| Which sport is tougher on the body: hockey or soccer?
Posted: 8/2/2007 6:38:56 AM | lmao you really have no idea.
run past someone and they will kick u in the shin or ankle as hard as they can with studded soccer boots.
See if it hurts.
Hockey is just boring.
Why have a game at all, just go watch the wrestling. | |
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| Which sport is tougher on the body: hockey or soccer?
Posted: 8/2/2007 7:31:10 AM | yeah ok ^^^^
most people that don't like hockey. say the game is to fast. so how would the fastest game, be boring? there is zero wrestling in hockey, fights yes. a player may wrestle another player to the ground during a fight in frount of the net but thats usually in protection of the goaltender.
"run past someone and they will kick u in the shin or ankle as hard as they can with studded soccer boots.
See if it hurts."
not one person here says that doesnt hurt, but a frozen puck shot at 100mph has more knock down force then a kick. meaning a puck in the ankle will do more damage then a kick. its all really simple the speed, size and amount of things in hockey lead to more of a chance and more injuires then soccor.
its not hard to figure out people look at the lenght of a season, look at the amount of games played per player, the amount of man games missed per team, then figure in the playoffs. to play one hockey season is way harder on the body then a soccr season. | |
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| Which sport is tougher on the body: hockey or soccer?
Posted: 8/2/2007 10:06:12 AM |
probably is, but who cares.
Footbal is the world game.
agree!
that wasn't the point of the thread though.
In terms of toughness , hockey>>>>>>>>>>>>soccer
popularity, soccer>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>hockey | |
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| Which sport is tougher on the body: hockey or soccer?
Posted: 8/2/2007 11:53:14 AM |
The average soccer player runs approx. 6 miles a game. The average walking speed is about 3.5mph...so "running" 6 miles in 90 minutes (with a 15 minute break in the middle) isn't particularly impressive is it? | |
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| Which sport is tougher on the body: hockey or soccer?
Posted: 8/12/2007 6:50:05 AM | Ahh Pedro .. spreading your anti-hockey message again
Hockey is a full body workout, skating, shooting the puck, checking into the boards. Upper and lower.. Soccer just lower no touchy the ball with your hands..( and no standing under a ball so it can hit you in the head doesn't count as a workout)
As to time on the ice/field.. Hockey Goalies are on the full game with no break.. Wearing up to 40 pounds of equipment, doing splits and back up again, ( goalie magazines have timed NHL goalies into how many tenths of a second it takes for them to react and then complete the save) all while stopping 90+ mph pucks. As stated in previous posts, playing every or every second night.
Average Hockey goalie can get up to 40 shots per game.. Soccer.. what maybe 5 real shots a goalie has to stop and those rare shots are the highlights of the boring game.. | |
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| Which sport is tougher on the body: hockey or soccer?
Posted: 8/17/2007 12:20:09 PM | | HOCKEY by far! all of the equipment those guys have to wear then plus getting banged into the boards on a recurring basis! the blows to the head and concussions to players are astronomical! then on top of all that they have to have all the skills necessary to play the sport. i may be bias but i think hockey is a much more demanding sport! | |
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| Which sport is tougher on the body: hockey or soccer?
Posted: 8/18/2007 3:53:41 AM | hockey would be tougher if those 'players' got rid of those silly helmets and that high amount of padding they wear.
on the other hand you have football, a sport without that ridiculous protections, so the 'naked' body really suffers.
yes football is tougher on the body | |
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