Hockey Vs Ice Hockey

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For my comparative analysis I will be analyzing and comparing the 2014 NHL winter classic, featuring the Toronto Maple Leafs against the Detroit Red Wings. For the AFL match I will be analyzing game 7 of the 2015 AFL season featuring the North Melbourne kangaroos against Essendon bombers.

Pre-game show
In the NHL match, my video source does not include a full pre-game coverage show. However, the video coverage opens with both teams standing on the blue line, with each team standing on the opposing side of the ice facing each other. The announcer mentions that this is a tradition that NHL teams have followed since the Second World War. The NHL is the most prominent league in North America and features teams from both Canada and the United States
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NHL arenas are notably quite smaller compared to AFL stadiums. More notably there are far less players on the ice at one time. In an NHL game there are six players on the ice at the time, 5-center ice and one goal tender. In ice hockey the arena is much less crowded, and a less variety of skills than in footy. However due to the fact that the game takes place on ice there is much more skill and dexterity on ice that requires much more training. However, the actions done in hockey are quite repetitive, only navigating, passing, and shooting a puck with a hockey stick. However ice hockey seems to breed much more aggression than with footy. Players seem to be more aggressive with their opponents to gain control of the puck, and more so every player for themselves, when in the AFL fellow team mates seem to be more collectively supportive to their teammates. Last, playing ice hockey requires very good coordination to be able to control the puck on ice, but to also maintain there own coordination very slippery ice.
By watching closely it seems that in Australian rules Football, with more players on the field there seems to be a more cooperative team environment where all players work to defend members on their team, where in the NHL there are less players, but more aggressive and militaristic with one another, and any altercation between players is more visibly one on
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In the hockey game the end was very suspenseful as both teams failed score the most goals by the end of the period, so the game eventually had to go into overtime, and eventually to a shoot out. The AFL game had a clearly different outcome because North Melbourne won quite comfortably. However in the winter classic game the suspense was quite obvious. To win the game each team got three shots, and who ever got the most out of three won. The suspense of the final minutes of the game were so intense, the crowds were going crazy because they knew that the game could end at any second. When the game ended all the players formally got into a line and shook hands with every member of the opposing team showing solidarity, this was quite a formal end of the game

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