Hockey

Hockey  is a popular sport on Waiting For a Train, especially in the CBox. Its popularity has spawned numerous off-topic threads, serious CBox and RPing derailment, and many jokes about Canadians and Hal Gill. The main perpetrators of said derailment and threads are usually Ana and Katja, though Edge, Uzair, Squee, and Kait also seem very knowledgeable about hockey. Occasionally, others mention other things about hockey. Hockey is in direct competition with the other main sport of WFAT, baseball; thankfully, the two sports seem to play at different times, probably due to the use of ice in one and the need for sun in the other.

Mikhail Kovaleski's play-by, Henrik Lundqvist, is a hockey player, making him one of three athlete PBs on the site. He is also commonly regarded as the hottest hockey player on WFAT.

Hockey in the CBox
When hockey season begins in the CBox, those who do not understand the sport are advised to hide, or try to pick up the sport. Indeed, hockey knowledge is almost as important at WFAT as an understanding of Inception principles. So far, it is understood that hockey involves hitting people into walls, penalty boxes, the occasional goal, and lots of blood. There also seem to be rules to hockey, but they are hardly ever mentioned.

Sometimes, hockey in the CBox extends to sharing stories about hockey players, or finding hot hockey players that fit into writers' types. This is Hot Hockey Man Day, as opposed to Hot Man and Hot Woman Days, as they revolve specifically around hockey.

Multiple conversations will involve Katja purchasing tickets and getting very excited about it. These are usually accompanied with GIFs of Minions (from Despicable Me).