Your first question should be, “Who the hell are you?” You already know, but I’ll start at the beginning and tell the whole story.
I was a hockey fan as a child, and that lasted deep into adulthood where hockey lived alongside tennis as my favourite thing on TV. Eventually as a teenager, I lost interest. The late seventies and early eighties were not good years for hockey.
Suddenly one day, hockey was big news because Wayne Gretzky had been traded to LA, and I was intrigued enough to watch the first Kings game that came on TV – Jari Kurri became my favourite, followed in due time by Luc Robitaille, and the slow dawning of the new age of hockey was fun to watch.