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Women's basketball, when played by two goods teams by wearendhockey

of fairly equal competitiveness is fun to watch but I'm not much of a fan of watching women's ice hockey. As the sport was gaining traction I thought I would grow to like it for a couple of reasons. No hitting and smaller bodies leaving a lot more room on the ice to play the game as (I believe) it was meant to be played. I've never been a fan of hitting for hitting's sake (which is what 90% of the contact in the sport is now) and the women's game has none of that. But for some reason I have just never grown to like it much.