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Auston Matthews (No. 34 Maple Leafs) vs. Sidney Crosby (No. 87 Penguins) Picture taken Feb 16, 2022, courtesy of NHL.com Ice hockey. No one knows what the hell that is here anyway, in a tropical country that is Indonesia, where ice would melt faster than erasing your browsing history. Yet right now, we will be talking exactly about that, because it’s certainly interesting to watch. Especially the world’s premier ice hockey league, North America’s National Hockey League, better known as NHL. Ice hockey is a sport where you use a stick that looks like a golf club to shoot a disk-shaped puck into the opposing team’s goal, on ice. That’s it in a nutshell, but there are a few quirks that you will understand if you follow this sport long enough, just like the offside rule in soccer (or football, you British nerds). But now we’ll stick to why you should watch this league. You might have known that walking on ice is very slippery. Now imagine what if we use a pair of skates on that ice. You’ll...