Funny misconceptions you had of the game when you were young

[calumniate]

My sister ended up having really bad vision, like minus 11.we went to a lot of games though, but she started bringing her book. Took her forever to realise there was a puck involved. Unfortunately glasses did not help her enthusiasm!

As for myself, it took me forever to understand what a winning goal was.

[BigDogg]

I remember going to some BCHL games when I was 5 or 6, and I used to think that when the goalies would shave the ice in their crease that they were dancing to the music in the rink.

[Mofo]

I used to think teams pulled their goalie no matter how many goals they were down. So when I first got EA NHL '92 for genesis, I used to pull my goalie with a min left even if I was down 7-0..ect.. My older bros were like wtf are you doing?

[H2SO4(aq)]

when my Dad and his buddy's were getting together to do a hockey pool for the playoff i was under the impression that they went snokling or scuba diving while playing a game of underwater hockey in a dive tank. incredible.

[VANFLAMESFAN]

When an announcer would say "rink wide" pass, I thought he was saying "rick wide" and I never understood why.

I wasn't a bright child.......or adult for that matter.

[station]

- Thought that Brian Heyward was the second best goalie in the league because he was Patrick Roy's backup.

- Could not figure out what the "H" in the Canadiens logo was supposed to stand for.

- Similarly did not understand why there was a wheel in the Red Wings logo.

- Had no idea where on earth Hartford was but longed to own a Mike Liut Whalers jersey.

- Thought that The Mighty Ducks of Anaheim was a sweet name for a hockey team.

- Offside calls = total mystery.

- Thought that making the NHL was probably not that hard. Hockey players didn't really seem like world class athletes in the same way that football players or track athletes did.

[RougeUnderoos]

Originally Posted by sun

I thought I could make the NHL

Yeah me too. It wasn't really a matter of "making it" though. I thought it was a choice.

"What do you wanna be when you grow up?"

"Well duh. I'm going to play for the Canadiens."

[Dion]

Whenever NHL broadcaster Danny Gallivan said the phrase "Savardian Spinorama", I assumed that Serge Savard was a ballerina in the off season.

[Stay Golden]

when i was a kid i wanted the Flyers to lose all the time especially in fights vs Boston and the Leafs.
I thought that Guys like Holmgren, Dupont and Clark were real criminals.

I thought Borje Salming was Borje Salami.

[browna]

Mine was more about playing kids hockey at 6 or 7...my parents had to pay for "extra ice time", and I took that as payment for me to play extra shifts in a game, not actual ice time for the team for practices. Until I figured out, I wondered what would happen if someone's parents didn't pay.

Flames wise, when I was 10 or 11, after having gone to several games already over the previous 3 or 4 years, I remember always hearing about expensive "box seats", in the old 'Dome. I was looking for some sort of walls seperating those seats from the general bowl, but never saw them.

Then, got to go to a game in box seats (courtesy a fellow CP poster...has to be 20-25 years ago now, right KC?) who had box seats. They were actually the first few rows of the second level, and were a group of 6-12 normal seats, and still random individuals in those seats, not all 12 for the one ticket holder, "boxed" in by rails on either side. Since renovated obviously. I think they were coded as "yellow" seats in the seating chart.

[Enoch Root]

Originally Posted by Stay Golden

when i was a kid i wanted the Flyers to lose all the time especially in fights vs Boston and the Leafs.
I thought that Guys like Holmgren, Dupont and Clark were real criminals.

I thought Borje Salming was Borje Salami.

Who was the winger that came over with Salming? Inge Hammerstom?

I thought he actually had eggs in his pockets

[Beer-gut Murray]

I used to think the Saddledome was a good place to study for University exams.

No seriously though. I heard once that scalping tickets was illegal and I always somehow thought Calgary police were lurking around at the Saddledome to bust people, or that they themselves went undercover as scalpers and would apprehend you once you pulled out your money.

[browna]

Also, from Opee Chee hockey stickers and hockey cards, and pictures in Goal Magazine, around that same 6-8 year old age in the early to mid 80's I wondered how the teams played in what seemed to be half dark arenas and if that would ever happen in Calgary.

Of course, it was the flash from the 1980's camera darkening the background behind the player in the shot.

[#22]

-I remember my brother telling me that icing was when a player sprayed ice in the opposing goalies face.

- A power play was when all the players on one team got mad and started playing really hard.

- It was normal for a team to win 4 cups in a row (Islanders, then Oilers)

- Reggie Lemelin was the best goalie in the world

[MikaelBacklund]

I used to think Wayne Primeau was the most skilled player on the Flames. lol.

[VictoryJuice]

i got a synergy for my bday one year. it said "pat pending" near the blade, so i always thought i had pat pending's blade patern. My dad then told me that pat pending wasnt an NHL'r or a person lol

[Knut]

Peter Taglianetti was Petertag and Eddie. I thought they were two guys that always played together.

Edit: Haha. Didn't see the one posted before

[Pablothegreat]

Not just hockey, but in all sports on tv - when the announcers started to thank the director, producer, stat guy, and other TV behind the scenes personnel, I used to think the games were fake, like a TV show or wrestling.

For the life of me, i could not figure out how they "directed" the players and goalies to allow goals. My parents would perpetuate this by saying meaningless goals with a few minutes left were happening just to keep the audience excited, so they could sell more commercial time.

[OutOfTheCube]

Not me, but my sister thought 'Cechmanek' was 'Chuck Manek' and couldn't figure out why the announcers always said his first name

[edn88]

I used to think whoever scored the series winning goal in the Stanley Cup finals got to be captain of the that team the next year.

I thought that the Montreal Canadiens would always win the Stanley Cup (and was mortified when they lost to Minnesota one year).

Also when I was very young, my parents only had a small black and white TV, so I always thought the LA Kings had the best jerseys (because of the crown).