When did you start watching/following the NHL?

[Plastic Joseph]

Curious of the age of the posters here, what is the earliest NHL you actually watched live (or on TV)

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[Golden_Jet]

Curious of the age of the posters here, what is the earliest NHL you actually watched live (or on TV)

Good idea.
Will be interesting to see results

 

[The Podium]

Watched with my dad through the 90s, but really started following on my own during the 2002 playoffs. Leafs losing to Carolina in the ECF was my first of many heartbreaks.

 

[JaegerDice]

1990s, and it's only gotten better and better.

 

[Coffee]

1990s, and it's only gotten better and better.

Are some of the people saying 70’s or earlier lying?

 

[KirkAlbuquerque]

1997. Great time to get into the Rangers

Watched them get blasted by Lindros and the Legion of Doom in the ECF

 

[Fourier]

My first real memories of following the hockey go back to about 1965. I quickly became a die-hard Habs fan and remained so until Gretzky came to the Oilers.

 

[Johnny Tomala]

2000s, I was born in 1990, I started following it in my primary school.

 

[MetalheadPenguinsFan]

1993

 

[joestevens29]

1990s, and it's only gotten better and better.

Dead puck era was not better than anything

 

[Realgud]

I'd like to say I started watching hockey in 1997 but I was way too young to appreciate what I was watching, but at the same time this is exactly what made me fall in love with the sport and made me start playing it. I probably started to watch it more "seriously" in the early 2000's.

 

[SnowblindNYR]

I thought this board was younger. 2000s for me but barely. 2000-2001 season.

 

[dirtydanglez]

Are some of the people saying 70’s or earlier lying?

no, 60 year old people exist.

 

[Jericho111091]

My earliest auditory memory is a call from a game in i think it was 93. "Sandström has it behind the net. Sandstörm sends it up to Robitaille, Robitaille across to Gretzky! He scores!" Or something along those lines