25 Things Every Die Hard Hockey Fan Can Relate To
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25 Things Every Die Hard Hockey Fan Can Relate To

Hockey is a lifestyle.

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25 Things Every Die Hard Hockey Fan Can Relate To

As hockey fans, we've discovered that we've become our own breed. No other sport can understand why we do the things we do. Every obsessed hockey fan has lost their mind at one point or another due to their team. Hockey is by far the world's best and worst sport. Worst meaning that we can't stand the OT and shootout anxieties that come along with it. Here are 25 things that every die hard hockey fan can relate to.

1. When people just don't understand how stressful OT is.

Person who does not get it: Wow going to a NHL game that goes into OT must be so fun, you get extra hockey for your buck

me:

2. Why have one boy let you down when 25 boys can let you down at once

3. When your team can't get their act together, but you're the only one who can say it.

Me: My team sucks.

Me: What are you guys doing I could do better than you and I don't even play hockey.

Me: I hate every single one of you.

Me: How did any of you even make it to the NHL?

Someone else: God i hate your team they suck.

Me: DON'T YOU INSULT MY BOYS I WILL CRAP ON YOUR GRAVE.

3. When you miss a game and are forced to watch it on TV

Watching hockey games like ... "look at all those empty seats i could be in."

4. During playoffs

start of game: Alright, here we go boys. Here we go! Let's get pumped!

Being down one goal: Okay, alright, let's get it together, we've got this.

Being up one goal: Okay, good start boys, good start, just one goal closer to the cup. Please just keep this lead, I'm begging you

Being down three or more goals: Okay, you'd better listen to me! I dedicated my life to you for seven months, you'd better start playing with some energy and make a pretty spectacular comeback!

Being up three or more goals: We are the champions! Laawwwwddd Stanley here we come! Nothing can stop us, we are invincible! This is our year! All the way baby! I love my team, yessss!

In OT: *inserts breathing tube just for safety precautions*
getting ready for school: I've worn my jersey every day for six straight days is this sanitary? Probably not. (hashtag because it's the cup).

Studying: no

Sleeping: no

Anything that doesn't involve hockey: no

5. People who just don't get how much the goalie can actually do.

If you only blame the goalie then you’re a moron. Hockey is a team game, not a one man show. There’s no i in team, but there is in “shut the hell up, goalie blamers”

6. Realizing how deep in you are when this happens ...

Get into hockey they said. It'll be fun they said. Stop crying because of a Stanley Cup commercial they said.

7. "I hate hockey" I whisper to myself as I cuddle up in my NHL merchandise and eat an entire tub of ice cream

8. When you do nothing else besides watch hockey games.

Person: what do you do in your free time?

Me: Watch hockey.

Person: what do you do in the offseason?

Me: Watch hockey highlights

9. Playoffs part 2.

I’ve got 99 problems and playoff hockey is about 98 of them

10. When your own parents get in the way of the addiction.

Parents: "Hockey is getting in the way of school."

Me: "School is getting in the way of hockey."

11. Playoffs part 3.

Playoffs, more like prayoffs, am I right? Please jesus, help this team.

12. Playoffs part 4.

If you tell me to chill during the playoffs I'm going to fight you.

13. When your team takes you from one emotional extreme to the next.

My team scores first: It's only one goal, we are never safe. Score seven more to be sure!

Other team scores first: That's it. That's the game. My team is full of idiots and incompetent and will never score ever again.

14. "Literally my entire life is missing an empty net goal".


15. Trade deadline day is the worst day.

me: *watches clock anxiously*

clock: February 29, 2016, 2:59 pm ET

me: Whew, ok. There's no way anyone will make a trade at this point.

NHL app: Every player from every team has been swapped out. Sidney Crosby has quit hockey. Alex Ovechkin was traded for a soggy piece of bread.


16. Hockey and chill more like hockey and don’t touch me my team is on the power play

17. I like suffering via watching hockey

18. Realizing how your GM is slowly tearing your team apart.

You see a photo of your team from a year or two back and realize everyone is gone except for one person and you just stare at the one player who is still on your team like “oh crap he’s next."


19. When someone says you watch too much hockey.


20. When the ref makes a B.S. call.

Because why try and screw one player when you can just become a ref and screw the entire team.


21. When you remember your team is playing today.

22. When people who've never cared about hockey say that they're fans.

23. When your team is leading the league.


24. When it's the last round of the shootout and you're up 1 - 0 and the other team is shooting on you.


25. When its the offseason.

This basically says it all...


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