Frozen Minds. The home team steals the puck back. The defenseman makes a play up the boards to the forward. The forward uses his blazing speed to split the opponents defenseman.

        As soon as the puck gets turned over the other team is playing defense trying to get the puck back before the other team scores.  Well, like most things if you lose something that is necessary you want it back so your feeling a great deal of anger, frustration, and determination.  Now as the other team is breaking out of their zone the thoughts get a little bit more nervous.  Once the opposing team’s forward breaks past your defenseman the sense of urgency shoots through the roof.  Now it’s all up to the goalie to save the shot.  In situations like this it’s usually about a 50/50 chance that the goalie will save it.  The person who will win this battle is the one that is calmer and knows more of what they have to do.  In this case the player knew what he had to do to beat the goalie so he did it.  After the fact, the goalie is angry with himself for falling for the head fake.  The player who ever gave the puck up in the offensive zone is frustrated; because there was something he could have done to prevent the turnover.  It always seems like no matter what happens there was something you could have done differently to change the play or to stop something bad from happening.

        There are always thoughts going through people’s heads that don’t seem to make sense.  They seem to question what or why a player did something.  I can answer that question from a personal point of view.  It’s called reaction.  There usually isn’t any time to think about what play to make, you just read and react.  The people that usually wonder why are the people that have watched the game forever, but never played or if they did they were never the ones that were the best.  If you have a question on something though, they are the people to step up and answer the question.  They are the people that are book smart and the people that have to do everything in chronological order.  They don’t think outside the box.  That is why most of the time they don’t make the right decision in the clutch moment of the game.  They aren’t ready for that outside factor.  There are also the types of people that don’t really care for the game.  They just go to have fun or go because everyone else is going.  I’m not saying there is anything wrong with any of these kinds of people, they just don’t share the love, passion, and knowledge of the game that everyone else does.  That is why they question why did they make that pass or why didn’t they shoot the puck instead of making that last move on the goalie.  They just seem completely oblivious to the fact that everything is boom, boom, boom; it just happens so fast that there is no time to think.

        All in all, there are different kinds of people in the world and everyone thinks differently.  There isn’t always a right or wrong answer.  There is always a different view or feeling on how the situation is.  In a sporting event you may think everyone is as excited or as bummed as you are, but it just isn’t that way.  The reason why sporting events are so much fun is because everyone wants their way to happen and there is no wrong way to feel.  You as a fan can change the way the game is played by cheering because your excited, or booing because you mad or depressed.  That is why every person needs to go to a sporting event of there liking.