Hockey doesn't get enough respect on this board

After basically checking out of all other sports the last two months during the Capitals Stanley Cup run, I think a lot of people on this board would really enjoy watching hockey even though culturally it is non existent where most of the board lives (I assume the majority are in SEC country).

It's hard hitting and the players are incredibly tough. Players don't complain or cause near the amount of drama that exist in the other major leagues either publicly through complaining on social media or via talk shows and other things like that. There's lots of action (fun fact hockey's clock only runs while the puck is in play, the only major sport to have 100% action time, the others aren't even close) and hockey has a minimal amount of commercials, I believe there are basically 3 commercial breaks each period and that includes even in the playoffs and other major games so the games don't drag on like they can with college football games (especially big ones). It also, in my experience, is still pretty affordable to go if you're in the area at least up until deep into the playoffs.

I was basically shocked at how many of my friends I graduated at LSU with basically joked and brushed off hockey as if it were similar to soccer. If you get into it and give it a chance I can't see how many of the posters here who bitch about football becoming soft and the social media drama from basketball don't enjoy watching hockey.