I love in hockey when a player scores a goal and just turns around and screams at the crowd while the crowd screams back it’s so weird
I love how the immediate thing to do in hockey after you score is throw your hands up in the air and wait for other fluffy marshmallow men to come and give you hugs
I love how when a team wins the first thing they do is hug and pet the goalie on the head, like he’s an affectionate old dog that they grew up with
I FINALLY FOUND OUT WHY THIS HAPPENS. You see this all the time when there’s a fight or a scrum and suddenly everyone pairs up with a member of the opposite team and they just sort of …hold each other.
Someone on reddit asked about it. And it turns out there’s a logical-ish reason:
all of the other players pair off with their man to prevent anyone else entering into the fight … so it’s a form of self policing.
[…] The players basically want to prevent 2 on 1, etc. fights and by finding a “hugging” partner so there’s no ganging up on one guy, even on accident. They do it because it’s fair. And it’s kind of cute sometimes.