Explain Why Hockey Is The Hardest Sport Than Hockey

Hockey or Football? We all have asked each other which is the more difficult sport. I am a hockey player, myself and haven’t ever played football for a team or while in H.S. I asked some of my friends who play both and they gave me their opinions. Football is a high contact sport where you are tackling and being hit just about every play. Hockey you are always being bumped around or checked. According to some studies and research, it is said that Hockey is the most difficult sport as it is ranked 2nd on the hardest sports in the world list while Football is 4th on the list. While they both seem difficult, I believe Hockey is the harder sport and in this persuasive essay I will explain my reasoning as to why it is really a harder sport than

In addition, hockey requires high endurance and stamina at all times on the ice, thus the reason behind two minute shifts. In the game of hockey, there are three, 20 minute periods. Football consists of four, 15 minute quarters. A study by “the Wall Street Journal”, consists of 60 minutes in a game, an average of 11 minutes involves the ball in active play. Hockey is more strenuous on time spent playing by a mile. Hockey plays fast and physically on skates and you need to acquire fast speed and agility and high thinking to play and succeed. Hockey demonstrates toughness and a strong body physically and you need to be mentally tough as well as you play at higher

But hockey is tough, it can be a brutal sport to play in some days and you need to have a strong physical side and be mentally tough. In a bleacher report article on playing hockey it explains how hard the sport truly is, the hardest part was quoted by the author Reed Kaufman saying “every player has to think for his own every shift, with or without the puck and read the future knowing where the puck is gonna be or go too” me and myself as a hockey player and asking a bunch of other players what the hardest part of hockey was, they all say thinking smart and doing what's right away from the puck not knowing where it can go. Hockey requires tremendous thinking away from the play and being tough as nails in order to succeed in the sport. The last biggest argument is how hard winning the Stanley Cup trophy is in the NHL professional league. Like football and the super bowl, hockey is an 82 game season alongside 4 playoff divisions that only gets harder as you win. You must win 4 games in the series in order to move on to the next and this consists of 4 series to win the Stanley Cup. Many have agreed and even other professional athletes have said hockey’s trophy is the hardest to win in all of