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[QUOTE="ImperialOrange, post: 1084742, member: 362"]
"Most soccer shots are in the 40-60 mph range, with occasional shots going into the 70s and 80s. Anything faster than 85 mph is extremely rare. The all-time record shot (of those clocked) was by Eder, in the 1982 World Cup match between Brazil and the USSR, at 110 mph. The hardest in the last decade or so is a 96 mph shot by Sunday Oliseh, with Roberto Carlos a close second at 94 mph."

Average soccer pitch is 330 feet x 224 (average because not all are the same size) vs regulation NHL ice 200 feet x 85 feet. Shrink the soccer field to the size of an nhl rink and play 7 v 7 instead of 11 v 11 and it would look remarkably similar.

All the things you pointed out are what make hockey amazing in person but also hinders it on tv. Live changes look simple on tv and decidely are not.

Penalty box is cool but imagine someone getting a game misconduct and his team hiving to play a man down the rest of the game. That's what a red card does and a team playing a man down looks a bit like a hockey team trying to kill off a penalty.

Football is king because it's a gladiator sport played by giants and/or freak athletes similar to basketball but with heavy contact. Hockey and soccer both are played by normal looking people doing extraordinary things which hurts the wow factor. Unless someone has tried to mimic what players of hockey or soccer do, they have no real idea the skill/difficulty it entails.
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