Hey everybody, I'm Matt, this is the 10 Minute Bible Hour Podcast, and when you watch

sports long enough, you get familiar with them and you start to learn the ebb and the flow

and what looks confusing at first, gradually with whatever sport or sports are familiar

to you, eventually takes shape and you're like, oh I understand exactly why you do that

and you start to feel the rhythms of it yourself, and one of the sports that I absolutely

love to play and watch is ice hockey, it's a glorious sport.

It's violent and beautiful and artful and involves teamwork and creativity and interaction

with a surface we hardly ever interact with, it's a great game.

But one of the things you'll notice when you start watching hockey is that every now

and then it feels like one team will have an offensive advantage, they have the puck,

it looks like they have the ability to move into the scoring zone and put pressure on

the opposing team, on the opposing goalie, but then they don't.

Instead of doing that to the newcomer to hockey, it looks like the offensive team inexplicably

just chucks the puck down into the offensive zone slowly to let it rattle around and they

don't even chase it.

Well, what's with that?

Why?

The answer is because sometimes it doesn't benefit you in the ebb and flow of hockey

to relentlessly throw all of your energy at the net all the time.

You see in hockey, you don't have timeouts to change players, I mean occasionally there

are stoppages in play, but you can freely swap out players while play is occurring.

It's one of the beautiful things about the game.

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