On the surface, baseball and hockey couldn’t be more different. Baseball is a slow grind, hockey is lightning fast. Baseball relies on offense and defense being separate (but equally important) entities, hockey demands the ability to seamlessly transition on the fly. Baseball focuses on the individual, hockey is a total team sport.
Except that, as the Cleveland Indians are proving right now, a complete TEAM in baseball can be a sum greater than its parts. As the fans of a struggling, (hopefully) up and coming young hockey team, there’s something for us to latch onto there.
Stars win games.