I'm up here in Reidsville--transplanted NY Rangers fan. Canes-Oilers series was high, high intensity. It's actually hard for me to warm up to baseball for a while after the hockey playoffs end. I don't think it's overstated when they advertise that the Stanley Cup is the hardest trophy in sport to win. These guys go through 2 months of brutally intense action. If I'm not mistaken, Kevin Lowe played a couple of games (5 and 6, or 6 and 7 against the Devils) for the '94 Rangers with a partially separated shoulder. A stay-at-home, digging-in-the-corners defenseman playing with a shoulder injury like that!
I put that up against any of these football players who get side-lined with "turf-toe" any day.
Agreed about hockey vs football. I only watch baseball during the World Series. It's about all I can stand. I enjoy highlights though on ESPN.