My favourite sport is hockey. I know what you are thinking, another typical Canadian who favourite sport is hockey, but here’s the catch I like both ice hockey and ball hockey. I like ice hockey because it’s a fast, suspenseful and intense sport. I normally watch the NHL and my favourite team is obviously the Vancouver Canucks. The Canucks have been my favourite team ever since I was 7 years old. Since watching my favourite team play, I’ve got to see them go to the Stanley cup final only one time, and that was in 2011. I still remember it like it was yesterday. I still remember the iconic goal that Alex Burrows scores in overtime against the Chicago Blackhawks.

At the time Chicago was the team to beat, as the Canucks played them several of times in the first round of the playoffs, but they always lost to them. Not this time though. This time it was the Canucks turn to beat the Blackhawks and they finally did! Once they finally knocked off the Chicago Blackhawks, it was all easy street from there as they beat the Nashville Predators in the second round and the San Jose Sharks in the third round. Unfortunately, though the Canucks playoff winning streak will come to an end in the Stanley cup final when they took on the Boston Bruins. However, even though they still managed to force a game 7 against the Boston Bruins, there were unable to complete their goal of the winning the Stanley cup that year as the Bruins won in game 7 to take the championship.

Today the Canucks have built another strong team and were able to make it to the second round of the playoffs, but they were unable to win in the second round as they were defeated by the Vegas Golden Knights. Now it’s up to the Canucks to do it again next year as they are going to be making some moves during the off-season to try to win the Stanley Cup next year. Now, I said that I like both ice hockey and ball hockey, so now I’m going to be talking about ball hockey.

I first got into ball hockey back in grade 10 of high school. I played on a team and we were doing well. I had to unfortunately stopped though because I ended up having a cardiac arrest that year, but once I recovered from that I was able to finish the rest of the season off. I continued to play ball hockey up until grade 11. In grade 11 we had a great team and my dad was even the assistant coach, and that was really cool! Also, our team went to provincials, but we only came up with fourth place, which is really good though because at least we were in the top five. That was a really cool season indeed. Hockey will always be my favourite sport in life, and I will keep on continuing to watch it because it’s just a fun sport to watch.

There’s lots of hitting, goals, and fights, and that’s really fun to watch. Also last year I got commentate for an ice hockey team called the Valley West Giants who play out of the Langley Events Centre and are a part of the BCMML hockey league. Hockey commentating is something that I’ve always wanted to do in life, because I thought that it will be really cool, and it was indeed! I had a blast being the play by play commentator for the Valley West Giants as it helped me with my communication skills, and it helped really shape my personality as well too. Unfortunately, though, I didn’t get to finish the entire season because of COVID-19 that came in and everything, but that’s ok I still really enjoyed being a play by play commentator for the Valley West Giants. I would totally be the play by play commentator for the Valley West Giants again because they are a really good team and a great organization as well to!

Also, before the pandemic hit and everything, I used to go play hockey. I would just go with my dad to drop in hockey night and the nearest area near my house and we would just skate around and shoot the puck around too. Sometime if there were enough people, we would form two teams and play against each other. That was really cool too! Also, it was really cheap to go skate around and shoot a puck around too. I believe it was only fifteen dollars in total which is a great dead indeed! Hopefully once the pandemic is over I could again with my dad, and we can go for a little skate and shoot the puck around once again too.

Hockey is Canada’s greatest sport, it has been around for years whether it’s kids playing on the ice at the nearest rink in the community, or people just playing it in their drive ways. It has helped form the National Hockey League, and it has helped form jobs to as well. It really is an all-around awesome sport! And it really brings people together, so that they can each cheer on the team that they are cheering on for, and it’s even better when your team wins the cup as well too. That just has to be the cherry on top, because even though I haven’t experienced it yet, I’m sure that it’s a great experience, and a great feeling as well to.

All in all, hockey is one of the best sports in the world, and it brings people together, and actually here’s a fun fact. Did you know that the Stanley Cup is the hardest trophy to win in all of sports? Yes, it is and that’s what makes this sport even more fun than watch and play as well too. I hope you enjoyed reading this, and what’s your favourite sport? And why? Let me know in the comments down below and thank you!