Ask anyone who's had to play against the upper 6th girl's team. The experience is a bit like rugby, only more painful and without the good sportsmanship.
Ice hockey, on the other hand, is all pads and blokes and stuff. It's never going to have the level of stealthy brutality that hockey - especially when played by psychotic hormonal teenage girls - does.
"Oh, sorry, was that your face? Didn't think it felt like the ball."