WATCH: Canadian hockey player baffled by idea of hurling
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Wexford star Lee Chin is in Canada to try his hand at ice hockey as part of TV show The Toughest Trade.
Show sponsors AIB have shared a clip showing Chin trying to explain his sport to one of the ice hockey players.
“Curling, hurdling? Do the hurls weigh like a hundred pounds each or what?” the Canadian asks, clearly without the foggiest idea of what the Irishman is trying to explain.
Good to see @LeeChin8 spreading the hurling gospel in the @Canucks dressing room! #TheToughest Trade - Episode 2, Friday 10.35pm, @RTE2 pic.twitter.com/eJRLol6xOK
— AIB_GAA (@AIB_GAA) March 7, 2017
Luckily, some of his teammates have seen clips and one shared his enthusiasm for the sport: “Hurling, it’s a great game.
“When I was a kid and it came on Wild World of Sports, Irish hurling - it was crazy, oh yeah.”
Now that is kind of reaction we like to hear.
