Noise isn't what it used to be in New York sports, what with the expensive tickets and wide concourses and sashimi-serving hideaways that are de rigueur for 21st Century stadiums and arenas.
That's not a slam on fans, who still fill seats around here more reliably than almost anywhere else, and for the money they are spending can do whatever they please. But it is a fact of modern sports life.
Which brings us to the matter of a certain hockey game scheduled for Wednesday night at Madison Square Garden.
Forget everything I just wrote, and everything you have heard about Capitals fans out-yelling Rangers fans so far in their second-round playoff series -- true as that may be.