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Originally Posted by Geeoff
? If you take contact out of hockey, they are fundamentally very similar.
Opposing teams trying to score on each other's net, which is protected by a goalkeeper. Winner is the team who scores the most goals.
At the professional level, both games are extremely defensive-minded and low-scoring. So, they even play out pretty similarly.
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Only at a surface level
The way the games are actually played are entirely different
Just look at the number of scoring chances per game as one example
Fears over hockey turning into soccer is in my view a huge exaggeration