06-13-2016, 10:13 PM
(06-13-2016, 08:10 PM)jason Wrote: I'm a very casual fan when it comes to hockey. I wasn't exposed to it as a kid. When I was in college, we liked to play the NHL game on the old Sega. That's how I learned players names back then. We turned the penalties off and just go at it, so I don't really know all of the nuances. When the Blue Jackets came to be, I lived in Columbus & went to a few games. It's awesome live. I really like playoff hockey. I'm kinda disappointed I missed the series.
I was 5 & 6 for the first two Cup wins for the Pens. A young Pittsburgh fan embroiled in that, with Le Magnifique and Jaromir Jagr knocking in goals, and on top of that you had the great one playing for the Kings at the time, and then the ribbon to tie it all together of the movie The Mighty Ducks comings out...I was doomed to hockey fandom for life.
The sad thing is that I live in a hockey desert. Even though I am in Caps country, very few people here pay attention to the sport and so it doesn't get much television time, especially when it comes to the Pens. So I kind of live for playoff hockey since it's the only time I really get to watch the games.
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"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
