It’s a great feeling to sit down to watch a Montreal Canadiens game, when the ice is new, the scoreboard is set at 0, there are 60 minutes (or more) to anticipate and anything can happen. That clean-slate feeling every game night.
It’s a feeling I experience with every game in the regular season, especially when the Habs are doing well and every game just adds to their already-accumulated points.
In playoffs, there is a desperation of time and space that adds to the excitement, but also adds to the tension. After all, there are only 4 guaranteed games.