• keep your eyes on the puck!
• fluidity of movement: seemingly random, game-changing events happen unexpectedly, yet observation of patterns and energies allows for anticipation in the moment, ie: hope*
• temporal mind fuck: time speeds up and slows down in a variety of juxtapositions with the ticking clock

	1st period	2nd period	3rd period
regular season	starts off exciting, ends boring	long and boring, ends the same way the 1st period ended	final 7-3 minutes may or may not be interesting
play off hockey	exciting	tense like a chess match	tense like a chess match played by exhausted people (all hell breaks loose)	sudden death overtime aaaugh!