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Down, dirtyHockey, I've determined, is the best major sport to see in person and I think the only sport that's significantly better to watch in person than on TV.
I think football's miserable to watch in person. Basketball and baseball are enjoyable either way, generally.
The key to hockey is stats. You're not keeping up with points, assists, hits, pitch speed, yards, fouls outs or anything. It's the clock and six guys going toe to toe on the ice.
In person, you get to truly appreciate the speed and size of those guys. The Stars wound up losing in a shootout, 3-2, but came away with a point in a game, frankly, that I never gave them a chance in.
They'd played Monday night in St. Louis, lost 1-0, had to come back home and probably got no sleep and had to play a good Detroit team that always has the Stars' number without Mike Ribeiro, Jamie Benn or Kari Lehtonen. And the Red Wings won, basically, thanks to a fluke play with a Detroit pass going off Alex Goligoski's skate and right into the net. But by the end of the second period, it was quite clear the Stars had run out of gas. Sort of coasted to the finish line.
The Stars have something. Injuries could end up biting them in the ass. They could still be a goal scorer away from really competing. The insane competition in the Pacific Division isn't helping. Still, there's a core of guys that play hard. That was a really good point they picked up last night. Nothing to sneeze at. At the end of the season, you look at that point and maybe it's the difference between playoffs and no playoffs.
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