you wouldnt pick your nose with it, dont pick our ice with it

I would just like to say that im not dising people who choose to participate in the following activity, its just that surtain parts of activity drives me crazy. Ok so thanks to a friend, 2 different friends and I (yes i have 3 friends) went to the Battle of the Badges hockey game. it was pretty good, except they wouldnt let us into the nosebleed section. SO during the hockey game progresses the frist intermission comes along (duh) and on "skate" a bunch of middle to high single digit aged kids come out to play hockey. It was quite enteraining. It was like watching hockey being played underwater (speed wise) (funny story, there is accually underwater hockey (i learned that at university). after the kids were done, the ice was cleaned and i commented to my friends would nice and shiney it looked. So anyway period 2 comes and goes and bam, second intermission, so for this entertainment, little kids? zamboni bumber cars or demotion derby? dodgeball on ice? no, no, and saddly no. out come 3 skaters. but what is different about them, no pads, thats ok, no hockey jersey, odd but still accepable, but no hockey stick? what else do you do on ice? yes, you guessed it, 3 male figure skaters. they were all in the top 6ish in canada in their age groups. they were accually pretty good, im not gonna lie, but one thing really bothered me though, the ice chipping. for example, standing on your toe pick and jumping from one foot to the other. yes that does chip chunks of ice out of the ice. everytime they did it im like ,ohhh, ahhhh (<-pained noices) and this is after the ice has been "zambonied". And as a hockey played i know that these holes in the ice can be very annoying and irritating. so that pretty much concludes my story/rant. but i will ask for info on one thing, im sure big IV could help me (if he comes to my site, maybe doug or any other hockey fans). hanging from the roof of Rexall Place are retired numbers (seen below), 31 fuhr, 17 kurri, 99 (like i need to say), but beside Gretzky, number 3, Hamilton. who? well thanks to the wonders of the internet i found out a bit about him here. But i still really know anything about him, so if any of you hockey learned people could let me if he was good/bad/amazing/whatever, that would be great (he retired 5 years before i was born). anyway invite your friends,
Ian