[Newsbot]

Title: Underwater hockey thrives in capital region
Category: Sports
Posted By: Hyack
Date: 2011-06-12 00:11:56
Canadian

[Bacardi4206]

That's awesome, that's gotta be hard though. Trying to shoot a puck underwater.

[fifeboy]

Bacardi4206 Bacardi4206:

That's awesome, that's gotta be hard though. Trying to shoot a puck underwater.

I used to play what we called "Underwater Hockey" back in the 70"s at U of M. It was different then, more like underwater football, with a large brick of heavy rubber, but lots of fun and a great workout.

[Regina]

I played back in the 70's as well. We used a rubber coated brass puck with Y shaped sticks which were about a foot long. Great workout and could get a little rough.

[Strutz]

$1:

Perhaps the biggest difference, though, is that underwater hockey doesn't get a lot of spectators.

"You have to be in the pool to see actually what's going on," said Ottawa player Laia Navarro, a Barcelona native who's doing post-doctoral work at the University of Ottawa. "So we don't have many fans and followers."

"Damn! I missed that goal... had to go up for air"

Sounds cool though.

[DanSC]

Strutz Strutz:

$1:

Perhaps the biggest difference, though, is that underwater hockey doesn't get a lot of spectators.

"You have to be in the pool to see actually what's going on," said Ottawa player Laia Navarro, a Barcelona native who's doing post-doctoral work at the University of Ottawa. "So we don't have many fans and followers."

"Damn! I missed that goal... had to go up for air"

Sounds cool though.

They need to hand out free snorkels to the first 100 fans.

[fifeboy]

Strutz Strutz:

$1:

Perhaps the biggest difference, though, is that underwater hockey doesn't get a lot of spectators.

"You have to be in the pool to see actually what's going on," said Ottawa player Laia Navarro, a Barcelona native who's doing post-doctoral work at the University of Ottawa. "So we don't have many fans and followers."

"Damn! I missed that goal... had to go up for air"

Sounds cool though.

You have no idea how true that is.

[Strutz]

I guess doing "The wave" would be easy...

[fifeboy]

Strutz Strutz:

I guess doing "The wave" would be easy...

Oh man, you need to stand in the corner for that one.

[PostFactum]

The chance that it will grow up in real kind of hockey are minimal, as to speak about fun - that's funny)

[sandorski]

Protip: Chill the water to < 0c

[QBall]

Interesting. Not sure who would sponsor a world championship of a sport where you can't have spectators except on T.V.? Maybe they can have games at aquariums that have underwater viewing?

[Regina]

Rarely an icing call as well.