French Girl Discovers Ice Hockey | NHL Hardest Hits - "Here Comes the Boom" 🏒 

Ice hockey is the best sport to see in person.

It’s a beautiful sport, fast, aggressive and honourable. Love from 🇨🇦

As violent as these hits are you should look into NHL hits through the glass. Those are crazy to watch

Thumbs up for the University of Minnesota pennant!

There are often 20-30 hits recorded per team per game, that said MOST are not as big as a highlight reel hit. One of those hits pretty much ended Paul Kariya’s. Career. Those were all big hits. You may enjoy a goal scoring or goal keeping highlight reel. The goalies are extraordinary athletes crazy flexible and ridiculous reflexes.

Current rules about hits restrict the following: - Interference: you generally can not interfere with anyone other than the puck carrier. While there is some leeway on defining who the puck carrier (ie: he doesn't explicitly have to have the puck on his stick), obviously someone who is away from the play isn't a valid target - Goaltender interference: you generally can not touch the goalie regardless especially when he's in or near his net - Clipping or hitting someone low. This is due to how you can cause them to spin and land head first - Hit to the head. There's a lot of debate over what constitutes a hit to the head as the current standard is "primary point of contact" which means there's a lot of secondary contact to the head that goes unpenalized - Boarding or hitting someone into the boards *violently*. If someone is against the boards and you pin them, that's not boarding but if they're a foot away and you send them flying in, it is. Those are obviously black and white examples, plenty of gray area between - Hit from behind. A shove is ok, a hit is not, and if they turn away from you and your hit happened to now be targeted at their back, that's on them With exception to the first two, the degree of danger of the hit can make it either a 2 minute minor or 5 minute major penalty and if the latter, automatic game misconduct is attached which ejects you from the game. International Women's Hockey makes hits illegal. European leagues tend to follow this, North American leagues tend to be more in line with NHL rules.

This is not hockey, this is just what we call body checks ("mise en échec"). This is to hockey like tripping is to soccer. There's way more to each sport than just this one thing.

I'm just gonna answer and clarify some things. I'm canadian and as the stereotypical canadian I grew up playing hockey so when she goes omg I'm laughing. Also as a canadian I know a bit of french (not nearly as good compared to a french person but a bit) and Hockey in english has a H noise but in french it doesn't. Also yes hits happen probably a minimum of like 10 a game. Don't worry about the guy on ground skate thing more people have been hit by skates when a guy falls and his feet are in the air. Penalties: if you leave the ice and intentionally hit someones head thats illegal, elbow to head illegal, anything to head (unless guy is bent over) is pretty much illegal, other than that you're fine, also the person being hit has to have the puck or had the puck within 2ish seconds. Also we usually have less anger then other athletes because we can take it out while playing instead of just throwing insults we also have gentlemans rules that if you cross you will be messed up and most players are respectful of them, its just a way to rattle opponents and get possession of the puck. the puck is made of a really hard rubber. Yes there is a female hockey league the NWHL. I'm sorry for making such a huge comment honestly I just really like talking about hockey so I repeat my bad.

Mon ami, a puck is basically VERY, VERY hard rubber, so while very rare, getting hit by a hockey puck has killed a hockey player or two before. Again, VERY rare to have it happen, but if a puck can (and routinely does) travel at over 90 MPH, it can also become a deadly weapon. If a puck going that fast hits a player's Adams Apple flush, it could easily kill a man. That said, as someone who grew up playing and loving hockey, mostly everyone goes in not even thinking about getting hit by the puck. Just skating and getting to play hockey is all you're thinking about anyway. Like I say, it's VERY rare when something like that happens with a puck, but, at times, hockey no doubt can also be a dangerous sport.

This is why Canadians are so nice, the settle everything on the ice

Every reaction channel ever : “these hits are terrifying” Most hockey players: “these hits make me want to go play RIGHT NOW”

"I went to a fight the other night and a hockey game broke out" ~ Rodney Dangerfield

Hockey players are some of the most humble, respectful, polite and generous of the athletes around the world. These guys don't fake being hurt and roll around on the ground for 20 minutes to try and get a penalty. They really get hurt, go to the dressing room, get fixed up and get right back out there. And if anyone ever crosses those lines, they fight.

Miss Marie, hockey is awesome! ❤ from Canada 🇨🇦

Puck (rhymes with the Bad word.) :) Goal, goalie pads, Women do play hockey. Never boring. The big hits and the fights are actually a small part; the speed and skating is impressive and a good goalie is amazing to watch do their thing. Ice hockey and ice skating both are filled with incredible speed and skill.

Marie, allow me to speak as a journalist who authored a few books on hockey. The NHL has players from France! Antoine Roussel (from Roubaix), Alex Texier (Grenoble), Pierre Bellemare (LeBlanc-Mesnil) & Cris Huet (St-Martin-d'Heres) are a few. The collisions you saw? Old-school fans love them. Hockey's the only sport that permits fighting, so they love that too. But with head injuries now a crisis, many fans frown on such excessive violence, like watching NASCAR for its car crashes. I prefer hockey for its beauty, skill, skating, stickhandling and puck shooting. Also, do you know what the word "hockey" means? It's derived from the French word "hoquet," meaning a shepherd's crooked stick!

What I love about hockey is there’s a lot of contrast between the elegance of skating and skill versus the brutality of combat. The speed of the game can go so fast too.

They ain't angry, cause after the game, they go out for a beer and laugh about it

Most of the hits are legal Fighting is allowed but you do get a penalty HAHA

The skates are incredibly sharp and dangerous. They are very different from figure skating skates. The puck is made of super hard rubber. Don't let the rubber part fool you. It's hard as a rock. I can think of two occasions where a player took a skate to the neck. Both were lucky to survive. There are medical staff and a Dr on each bench because of the first of the accidents. From his wiki: Clint Malarchuk had a skate hit him in the neck severing his carotid artery and partially cutting his jugular vein. Many spectators were physically sickened by the sight. The excessive amount of blood that Malarchuk lost caused eleven fans to faint, two more to have heart attacks, and three players to vomit on the ice. Malarchuk's life was saved due to quick action by the Sabres' athletic trainer, Jim Pizzutelli, a former US Army combat medic who served in the Vietnam War. He gripped Malarchuk's neck and pinched off the blood vessel, not letting go until doctors arrived to begin stabilizing the wound. He led Malarchuk off the ice then applied extreme pressure by kneeling on his collarbone-a procedure designed to produce a low breathing rate and low metabolic state, which is preferable to exsanguination. It took doctors a total of 300 stitches to close the 15.5 cm wound. He was back on the ice in ten days.

You may be interested in viewing the Montreal Canadians of the NHL, as they are a French Canadian favorite. They have both French and English Commentary, as well as a long Hockey Tradition. My favorite in person game was at the old Montreal Forum in 1972. It was the Montreal Canadians versus the Boston Bruins. Bobby Orr was playing or the Bruins in a hard fought game against Montreal at a time when ties were part of the outcomes. Also had the opportunity to see the Russian-USA Olympic Hockey Game at the Lake Placid 1980 Winter Olympic Games.

Bonjour Marie! The team that may interest you the most is the Montreal Canadiens due to their French-Canadian location and heritage. Another team you may like is the Detroit Red Wings as you already have a number of Detroit sport's apparel, and they have a great logo, colors, and history. Voici le boom! ~Be Blessed

"Some of those seemed like they were on purpose!" Oh... Sweety...

I'll be honest. Never thought much about hockey until I went to a live game. I loved it!

Hockey Players are the most skilled athletes. Live it is amazing.

The hockey hall of fame is full of French Canadians best goalies ever

Recently college hockey just finished with university of Massachusetts winning division 1 championship.

HOCKEY 🏒 There called ice skates not shoes. Yes they call penalties for some hits. Love your baseball screaming.😀

En Amérique, surtout au Canada, nous utilisons uniquement le terme hockey (nous enlevons le « sur glace » ou « ice »), car pour nous, le vrai hockey se joue automatiquement sur glace.

If you decide to try this , Marie, make sure you have a really good dentist!

There is women's ice hockey - in fact, the French women's national team is the #10 ranked team in the world (the French men are 14th). The women do hit each other just like the men. France does also have a domestic professional league, the Ligue Magnus; the major differences from the NHL being a wider rink (IIHF rinks are 30.5m wide, NHL are 25.9m) which encourages more passing and less hitting, and no fighting (in NHL hockey, 2 players can drop their gloves and fistfight, only getting a 5 minute penalty while their team can replace them on the ice; IIHF rules say fighting is a match penalty and immediate ejection from the game). There are currently 3 NHL players from France - Antoine Roussel, Pierre-Edouard Bellemare, and Alexandre Texier.

One of the younger guys on the team I'm a fan of (the Columbus Blue Jackets in Ohio) is actually from France. His name is Alexandre Texier.

La LNH existe depuis près de 100 ans, le trophey pour l'équipe gagnante de la saison, de 82 parties normalement(covid reduit a 56 parties) avec 31 équipes(32 l'an prochain avec la nouvelle franchise de la Ville de Seatle) canado-amiricaines qui jouent pour être une des 16 qui entrent dans les séries éliminatoires... ses 16 équipes jouent des séries 4 de 7(1ere equipe à 4 victoires) contre la même équipe qui ont été définies par rapport à la saison de 82 parties... donc 4 rondes de 4 de 7 pour arriver à gagner la Coupe Stanley(gagné pour la 1ere fois en 1983) et qui est depuis le trophé officiel. 🙂 Tu peux consultée assez facilement l'histoire du hockey en googlant... Et vu que tu as parlée de Football de la NFL, juste un brin d'histoire vu que les USA s'auto attribuent le sport... la plus vieille équipe, tous sports confondus, est De la Ligue Canadienne De Football, les Argonauts de Toronto fondé en 1873 et la coupe Grey est là pour les gagmants depuis 1909 et celui de la NFL Championship depuis 1966.!!! Je parlais bien sur des équipes d'amérique du nord! 😎

Hockey is a beautiful sport...yeah hits and fights happen, but the speed and athleticism are another level. Hockey is the best sport live, constant action and noise.

Great video Marie. Hockey is a violent sport and that's probably why so many people like it. There are a lot of injuries and missing teeth in Hockey. Yes there is women's ice hockey and it's a little less violent. Keep the reactions and culture videos coming!

Bonjour pour aidé un peu avec les termes: Le puck ( often said like POK by Francophone) est appelé la rondelle en français Canadien et fait de caoutchouc dur et est assez lourde pour sa taille pret de 200g. Il y a enormement de joueur francophone au Hockey le sport en fait as son histoire avec le melange des Francophone Québecois et des soldats britanique a la fin du 19ieme siecle. Deux équipes de la Ligne National de Hockey (NHL/LNH) utilise le Français dans toute leur parti et communication, soit les Canadien de Montréal et les Senateur d'Ottawa.

Yo, you have a Minnesota Golden Gophers banner behind you. I like your style!

Dallas Stars fan here for 30 years. When someone hits a player, especially if they are a scoring forward, that team will hit back. It can get brutal, but the rules have changes, so fights and stuff aren’t the same as they were back in the day. It’s my favorite sport. Brutal, but you have to be precise. I love hockey, I can talk hockey all day.

it would be cool to see you watch the Montreal Canadiens in Quebecois French lmao. also in Quebec they call the puck la rondelle :)

Each year in Canada, (not this year though), there is a series titled "Battle of the Blades). Pro hockey players ,male and female, are teamed with an Olympic caliber figure skater in a judged competition. The best part is seeing how much respect there is for their partner's sport.

as a kid in canada you get more excited each year, next year is the last year you have to play no contact....by the end of that year you dream of nothing more. it's one of the most exciting things a kid that plays hockey can pass into. you are now a hockey player. thank goodness fake teeth look so good these days!

Canadians are so nice and polite, that their underlying anger comes out during the violent sport of ice hockey.

As long as you don't jump/leave the ice or you take less then 2 steps after he passes the puck it's legal. Shoulder to shoulder hits are 95% legal!

Yes Canada’s favourite winter sport

This is great but the fights are even better. They are allowed to fight as long as they are standing.

Hey Marie! Great video! I was blessed to play hockey for 6 years in elementary, middle, and high school levels and it was by far the most fun sport I've ever played (others I've tried: basketball for 5 seasons, soccer for 3 seasons, and baseball for 4 seasons). We wear a ton of padding to protect ourselves while on the ice. Our padding consists of leg pads, shoulder pads, elbow pads, hockey pants (which protect our upper thighs), and of course a helmet. The skates can also protect your feet. At the levels I played at, we had guards on our helmets that protected our whole face, however, in the NHL, most players opt for only the covering that protects their eyes. The blades on the bottom of the skates are a real danger to hockey players, particularly when someone is hit and their feet fly up. I saw a hockey player have to get around 80 stitches in his face after a skate flew up and caught him in the face. He recovered and was playing again by the next game. In order to protect their neck from possible skate blades causing them harm, some players (I was one) wear "neck guards" which can best be described as a thick fabric that is velcroed around your neck that will block skate blades if any were to go up around your neck. In terms of knowing which hits would be penalties, penalties that are often associated with hits would be things like interference (hitting someone about 5 or more seconds after they have passed the puck), cross-checking (putting your stick horizontally on someone's side, chest, or back and pushing against them into the boards), and boarding (when you hit someone into the boards directly from behind with the intention to hit them rather than pursue the puck). Hockey is a sport where tempers can get hot very quickly, and as a safety measure, they actually let the players fight in order to let them cool off their anger. Each player that fights is assessed a 5-minute penalty, however, this does not reflect on the number of players on the ice for each team. Hockey is, believe it or not, a self-regulating and gentlemen (or gentlewoman) sport where the players make sure that no one is unfairly "ganged up against" and if an illegal hit does occur, the receiving players will usually retaliate later in the game or next time the two teams meet. There are opportunities for you to watch entire NHL games through the NHL website (NHL.com). I am unsure how this feature will fare for you in France, particularly because of the time zone differences, however, if you go to the website, at the top, there will be a banner that lists all of the hockey games being played on that particular day. Every two days or so, the NHL streams an entire game for free. Looking at the site, the next free game will be April 22 at 7pm Eastern Time, which, accounting for the time zone difference, would be around 1 in the morning for you. Unfortunately, the time differences and the lack of morning games here in the states mean that most games played would be very late or early in the morning for you. I highly recommend watching an entire game though as you are indeed correct when you say that it is not a sport that gets boring. The playoffs for the NHL are coming up soon, though I honestly don't know when they are for 2 reasons: 1) My team (the Detroit Red Wings) are not going to make the playoffs, and 2) I am currently in law school and finals are approaching fast so I am having to focus on those. I believe the playoffs will begin around the middle of May, with the championship series occurring in June, possibly reaching into July. The way NHL playoffs happen is that the teams will play in a best-of-seven series where the first team to win 4 games against that particular team during the series wins the series and moves on to the next round. Including the championship series, there are four rounds. Sorry for the long comment, I've been eagerly anticipating your videos on the NHL because it is my favorite sport to watch, I am actually currently watching a game on TV as I type this. I can't wait to see more of your NHL videos! And keep up the great work!

The puck is made of hard rubber. Probably made even harder with the cold. Hockey got a bad reputation many years ago as a 'thug sport'. The pros have gotten a lot better & it has always been a great sport in the amateur games. I'm one of the few that go to see a pro game for the sport, not for the fighting. There is more fighting in hockey than most other sports. Penalties are pretty common in hockey & some are subjectively called. There are sports that are harder to officiate but not many. Most sports don't allow you to take knives (known as skates) onto the playing surface. But surprisingly there are not a lot of injuries from the blades. A list of player that died during their playing careers are shown mostly to have died in car accidents. But on-ice injuries do sometime lead to death. Most recent was Timur Faizutdinov the captain of a junior league in St. Petersburg a few weeks ago. Fans getting bored at Ice Hockey. LOL!! Fans go home exhausted. Unless the home team is dominated early, there isn't much boring about it. It is a lot like the NFL in that it can be poetry in motion.

Marie, les mises en échecs sont partie intégrantes du sport et sont légale tant que le geste ne cherche pas à blesser son adversaire ou à viser la tête. C’est un sport très robuste et très rapide mais les joueurs portent des équipements de protection adéquats malgré qu’il arrive qu’il y ait des blessures dues au contact. Et oui, il y a du hockey féminin mais règles sont différentes où le contact est moins sévère. Et, même si c’est un sport plutôt agressif et que la frustration peut avoir un impact sur le comportement des joueurs, généralement ces athlètes limitent leur agressivité envers leurs opposants.

The original ice hockey sport is skating, passing, shooting, scoring. Players who are not so good at mastering those skills rely on violence & intimidation to stay professionally employed. Watching any game featuring the 'Montreal Canadiens teams' from the 1970's Lord Stanley Cup years is the 'purest example' of original ice hockey.

A lot of French speaking Quebecois players/fans for this sport.

There is 3 french players in nhl at this time that i know of. women play it too

Quand COVID est terminé, venez à Québec et assistez une match des Canadiens de Montreal!

Salut Marie ! Je suis des Etats-Unis. J'aime le hockey et football (soccer). Je pense hockey est magnifique ! Desolee, seuletment parle un peux en francais. Yo escribo mas en espagnol. :) If you want to see when the NHL was really good, then you should check out videos from 1970-2010. Mario Lemieux is one of the greatest hockey players of all time. I believe he is French-Canadian. Also check out Wayne Gretzky, Sergei Fedorov, Brett Hull, Mark Messier, Joe Sakic, Pavel Datsyuk, etc. Those are some of the legends of the sport. Merci beaucoup pour cette video. A bientot !

while hockey is high contact sport.....you really don't see too many of these spectacular hits that often

Hey shout out to Minnesota, if you like ice hockey then (other than Canada) we are the state to be in.

Hockey brings the strategy of baseball, the athleticism of basketball, and the physicality of football onto a sheet of ice. With no disrespect to fans of any other sport, hockey truly is the greatest game.

“Does this happen often” yup almost every game

“Does this happen often” Every minute of every game

This makes football and bull riding look mild by comparison, doesn't it? Maybe a hockey fan can explain the role of "enforcers" (aka - "goons").

The best part is if somebody really pisses you off you can always punch him...fighting is allowed

Fantastic video, Marie! The puck the game is played with is quite dense and made from rubber similar to vehicle tyres. It can and does knock out teeth or break bones in the face. The cold will give way soon for you to be able to enjoy sport again. All my best to you, Marie! Take good care.

The hockey puck is made from compressed hard rubber. Hurts like heck when You get hit by one, especially on the ankle of the hockey skates.

It's a penalty if they go for the head, use their stick, or the other player isn't playing the puck. Otherwise the hit are legal for the most part. You also can't take a run at another player (you kind of have to be coasting when you hit him). I can't think of a better way to explain that one. You have to react to hockey fights. The puck is very hard rubber. It hurts to get hit with it. Yes, women have their own league. Their used to be 2 girls who played in the youth league here back in the 1980's. They were better than most of the boys.

I’m a Home Fry Marie (Home Free fan) and I also love hockey. It’s popular in the US and Canada. There are a lot of French Canadian players in the game so you might like that. You can hit a player who has the puck but it’s a penalty if it’s a late hit (he passed the puck already some seconds ago) or if you target the players head. There have been concussions and injuries from bad hits especially into the boards. The game isn’t quite as rough as it used to be. They’re trying to clean up the hits to keep injuries down. There are also fights but not as many as there used to be. What I like is all the skill they have in scoring a goal and its a fast game and the players can really skate. There have been injuries from skates but it doesn’t happen very often. Hope you watch a game if you can. I’m a Pittsburgh Penguin fan so I love Sidney Crosby and he’s very good! You can watch some videos of him to see how skilled he is. Have a great day!

A lot of the players look big because the skates make em look tall, but the average height in the NHL is only 6’1-6’2

There are some really great Womens teams !

Great reaction! If you're interested in to get to know the sport more you should react to "The beauty of hockey: The greatest game on the planet" 👍

Took a quick look and didn't see the answer to your question about what the puck is made out of, it is vulcanized rubber and is frozen, so it is quite hard Edit: If you want to check out women's hockey try Hayley Wickenheiser one of the best all time

HELLO0O0O0 miss Marie! The black and gold "Boston Bruins"🤕 Ice 🏒 hockey is a violent sport. We American's like hard hitting sports.. Ya should check out NASCAR racing.. Race car turning left at 200 mph..😂 Keep smiling angel eyes🤗🤗

Great Hockey centers are in French Canada - Quebec, that have produced some of the greatest in the game. . .Look up Mario Lemieux + Sidney Crosby + Marc Andre Fleury - - watch some videos about them. You will enjoy it.

There's a well known bit of Quebecois literature, a short story to be precise, that really captures the significance of hockey in Canadian and Québécois culture (along with the cultural tensions of the day - it's a well-written tale). I believe the English translation is called "The Hockey Sweater" and in French it's known by two names "Le chandail de hockey" ou "Une abominable feuille d'érable sur la glace". It's a recollection of one of the author's childhood memories (set back during the glory days of the Montreal Canadiens in the 50s or 60s). One of the most noteworthy lines: « Nous vivions en trois lieux : l’école, l’église et la patinoire; mais la vraie vie était sur la patinoire. » (to paraphrase: We lived in three places : the school, the church and the ice rink; but our real life was on the ice.)

Yeah, hockey's a _very_ rough sport. The puck is a very hard rubber; think of something like a very hard wood, but a little heavier. When they're hit hard they can be moving at 90+ kph! You don't want to get hit by one without padding! The only *serious* penalties in the NHL are 'high-sticking' (using the hockey stick up high), and using your skates in a fight. Everybody knows how dangerous the skates can be, so it's *very* rare that it happens. High-sticking is more common, but not something that happens regularly - if you did it particularly aggressively, you _can_ be ejected from the game, but that's rare! Even a less-aggressive high-sticking call can get you benched (put into the penalty box) for several minutes, which could be a problem for the team if you're an important player! 'Body-checking' is the term for banging into somebody, and can be a part of a team's strategy and tactics, especially if the team has a reputation for liking to fight! If somebody bangs into you and knocks you down hard, you might normally think about getting up and fighting, but if the team has a reputation as brawlers, and you know you might be facing 3 or 4 of them ... you might decide to just back away from doing anything. And maybe for a few minutes you might not play so hard ... so they maybe have a _slight_ 'edge' over your team for that time! *Strategy & Tactics!*

Nice! The difference between American football and hockey is the hardness of the surface. Grass and dirt have some give, but ice has none. Also, the puck is hard; footballs have some softness. In some cases, players start fights on purpose. Years ago, when I was young, players wore no protection (helmets, mouth guards, etc.) and players were proud of having few teeth! Fights were more tolerated than today. Today, players that use too much violence or start fights are penalized more heavily. NHL (National Hockey League) is composed of US and Canadian teams and is the top sports league for professional hockey. Teams have players from around the world including Russia and Scandinavian countries. Hockey players need to skate as well as figure skaters (except jumps) and be able to skate forwards and backwards. Goalies are the only players that are allowed to catch the puck with their hands (a gloved hand). Hockey skates are different from figure skates. They don’t have the serrated end of the blade used as a brake by figure skaters. Hockey skates have longer blades for more stability.

France never does well in international tournaments or Olympics but in Canada some of the greatest players are and were French Canadian from Henri "The Rocket" Richard to "Super Mario" Lemieux to the NY Rangers' future superstar Alexis Lafreniere.

There's plenty of Quebecois in the league, the H is not mandatory. It's a puck, comme Frere Tuck in robin hood. Again the quebecois will oo the u, so it's ok. Anger is a difficult part of the game to explain. There are 82 games in a normal season, Plus playoffs, and the players' memories are long. You should seek out, even an amateur game. Jeux au hockey live does not compare to watching it. There are similarities to basketball, with the angles, and there is a ton of action all the time. No toe pick for hockey skates, so it's all ankles and side slides.

Answers to 2 questions you ask in your video : first, yes, they are wearing a lot of padding. Some would say to much padding, as it gives a feeling of invulnerability. Secondly, skate injuries are surprisingly rare. No one wants to get hurt. They been practicing not getting hurt and not hurting anyone since then were 8 years old. And yes this kind of contradicts what I just said about invulnerability. That said, the big problem hockey players have is from brain injuries aka concussions. Going from 30km/h to 0 in under a second does a number to the soft jello we have in our skulls.

Marie, the people playing ice hockey at a high level start skating / playing very young (3 - 5 years old). Ice hockey is a popular sport in New England (where I live), many high schools have both girls and boys teams. Hockey at the professional level is very physical (including fighting which is slowly be removed from the game). High school and college hockey, while still physical is not nearly as physical as the pros. Fighting is not allowed.

You need to watch the video brawl in hockeytown. The Detroit Red wings versus the Colorado avalanche. My favorite part is when Darren McCarty from the Red wings annihilated Claude lemieux from the avalanche. And while I don't advocate violence he had it coming. It was a personal vendetta going back to the year before. Before you watch the video look up the details on why this went down. Probably one of the bloodiest nights in hockey history.

Watch an actual NHL game. The massive hits, aren't as common, as this highlight reel, makes them out to be. Games are much more involving strategy and skating. A fun sport to watch and root for your favorite team.

"Does this happen often?" Like dozens of times or more per game. Penalties are assessed if you use your stick, elbow, knee, or fist, or if you target or contact the other player's head when you hit them. You're also not allowed to hit them into the boards if their back is turned. Here's a vid that explains penalties better...ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-DfYUrALRprU.html

Ice hockey is better than all of sports overall. 🏒 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 🇫🇷 🇪🇺 ❤️ 🚨 🥅 🔥

Marie, you have watched the wrong videos. Ice hockey is not about hitting, it's about fast skating and scoring goals.Most of the hits in these clips would be penalized. Search on youtube for best goals or best saves or even for part a of game.

hitting, or "checking" as it is called, is allowed in certain circumstances. You are allowed to check the player that has possession of the puck (they give you a 1 - 2 second grace on that, so if you are about to hit someone and they pass the puck off before you make contact, it is still ok). If you check a player that does not have possession of the puck it is a penalty for interference.

Think all of the best parts of other sports- soccer, American football, athletics, speed skating, even boxing... Cram it all together, and you have HOCKEY! That's why it's so fun to watch! And yeah, it can be dangerous...

womens hockey is for sure a thing. team Canada vs team USA in international play for women is one of the best rivalries.

I love your reaction to the hits. I would say that 80 percent of those hits were legal hits in todays game. 99 percent would of been legal in 1980's. Best game on earth... lol

women's hockey does exist, and there is no checking (no "here comes the boom" for us) so it's all elegance, all the time!

We just call it hockey

There are other videos that show the beautiful of "ice"(don't say that in Canada) hockey

Your only seeing the most violent parts, now you need to watch the skating and the great goals that are scored, it's like ballet on ice.

You were saying in the video you were worried about people getting cut by the skate blades and someone being cut dosent happen a lot but it still happens and there have been a few instances where goalies and players necks have been cut and nearly died there’s ton of videos if you wanna see it

Enjoyed your reactions. Nice to watch the game/religion we enjoy so much as Canadians through fresh eyes. Ps the puck is made of vulcanized rubber.

women do not get it. the physical stuff is awesome. I loved it. hurt but not harm.

really interesting to see the point of view of a french person about my favorite sport. I want more video of you reacting to it, because it is more than big hit and fighting. Pour répondre a ta question sur les pénalités. La mise en échec (le fais de pousser un joueur contre la bande) est légal si le coup est donner avec l'épaule. l'épaule ne doit pas toucher la tête sinon pénalité. Le joueur doit posséder la rondelle (le palet pour les Français) pour recevoir une mise en échec, sinon c'est une pénalité. A part ca si les deux élément sont respecter, tu peux quasiment tuer ton adversaire et ca devrais être correct :D

Quant à moi, le hockey sur glace est mon deuxième sport préféré, après le baseball. J’ai honte d’admettre que mon équipe favorie s’appelle les “New Jersey Devils”, les “Diables de New Jersey”. Quelle ironie que je suis prêtre Catholique, et mon équipe préférée s’appelle les Diables! 🤓👍 Il y a sûrement le hockey sur glace pour les femmes, heureusement, avec moins de violence que les jeux des hommes. J’aime regarder les équipes nationales, surtout quand les femmes Américaines jouent contre l’Equipe Canadienne. C’est une très bonne rivalité entre ces deux équipes nationales. Les équipes d’hommes Français participent aux concurrences internationales de hockey sur glace, par example, les Jeux Olympique d’hiver. Moi, je préfère regarder l’habileté et le patinage au lieu de la violence dans le hockey. Mon mémoire favori de hockey sur glace est ce qu’on appelle ici aux États-Unis, “ le Miracle sur la Glace”, le victoire aux Jeux Olympiques d’Hiver en 1980, de l’Equipe Américaine contre l’Equipe Soviétique. C’était essentiellement, une équipe de joueurs universitaires, contre une équipe professionnelle des soldats militaires. Les Américains ont gagné 4-3 à Lake Placid, New York, USA. Deux jours plus tard, ils ont battu la Finlande pour gagner la médaille d’or. “Sports Illustrated”, une revue très populaire aux États-Unis, a voté cet victoire, le plus grand moment sportif du vingtième siècle. Je suis d’accord avec eux! 🇺🇸👍🏒🥅

If you wanna know the Penalties in Hockey check out NHL penalties explained from RU-vid "Hockey penalties for Beginners" loving the videos Marie

Your so cute. 🤗❤️😎

NHL is not an American League or even American, it's Canadian sport

"Ice Hockey" Now that's a faux pas right there.

As someone living in ontario with family from Winnipeg. Hockey is the English way, but we hear Ockey a lot, so it's perfectly fine to say.