The link below is to an article William Faulkner wrote about seeing his first ice hockey game for Sports Illustrated in Jan. 1955.
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1069406/index.htm
He describes the hockey players as looking like tiny bugs on a pond.
"Then it was filled with motion, speed. To the innocent, who had never seen it before, it seemed discorded and inconsequent, bizarre and paradoxical like the frantic darting of the weightless bugs which run on the surface of stagnant pools."
To me the ice hockey players look like angry hornets swarming around a nest.
Here is some video from You Tube from the game last night between the Washington Capitals and the Tampa Bay Lightning.