Hockey Prompt

I distinctly remember the time the Ovechkin scored his 50th goal in his third straight season back in 2009 or so and did his "hot stick" celebration, and I remember how angered some people like Don Cherry were about it. I was in my early teens back then and thought it was so cool, and every time a player would do a celebration like that kids would always do their best to replicate them when they scored goals themselves.

I will never understand why people get so upset by players expressing themselves. Kids love it, and it provides us with iconic moments like Selanne shooting the glove, or Fleury sliding across the ice, there's so many memorable moments of players celebrating. In my opinion we need to be making the game more accessible, and not boring like a lot of people seem to want.

If you can't handle a player on the other team celebrating then you probably just shouldn't be watching sports.

163 words