Soccer is strictly worse than hockey as a spectator sport. Hockey shares with soccer everything good about soccer, and is fundamentally structured the same way. Except hockey adds certain spices to the bland soccer dish:

1. Exchanging players constantly without stopping the game.

2. Goal attempts more often.

3. The goal attempts are closer.

4. You don't know if the goal happened right away.

5. Players check each other against walls, instead of just lightly pushing them.

6. Nobody falls down and rolls around on the ground fake crying like a pretty princess whenver another player lightly pushes them.

7. Fighting is somewhat tolerated.

8. Faster.

9. Faceoffs more often.

10. Penalty box and power plays add new levels of strategy.