No armor + puck flying at face/chest + ice skates flailing everywhere + hockey sticks + ramming into walls = recipe for disaster

Or 2 1/2 hours of pure awesome entertainment.

Funny how society as it stands finds disaster so entertaining. :p

I'd hardly call a group of athletes playing a game that they WANT to play, albeit it physically demanding a "disaster."

I don't watch hockey for the very same reason I don't watch soccer or basketball. It's too fast-paced.

I enjoy soccer quite a bit, but even so I occasionally find a game too slow to bother watching. How can it be too fast?

What do you watch? Golf? Poker?

Soccer only qualifies on occasion. I suppose I should've made that clear.
Golf is boring to me. Maybe it's the commentators. And I do watch a little poker every now and again.

RAB, you need to find some of Don Cherry's Rock 'em Sock 'em videos, and then you'll know why us hockey players wear padding - tis a rough sport :P