When did you start watching/following the NHL?

[spintheblackcircle]

My parents grew up on the South Side of Chicago and they were fans from the 50's on. My mom would walk up to the top rows of the Stadium with thick cigarette smoke pregnant with my sister.

They moved to DC and my first game was in the Caps 1st season and I've been a fan since. Last month I went to DC to see a concert and I happened to stay a block from the new stadium and I went to my first Washington home game since 1978. I still remember the smell of the old Cap Centre.

 

[Greatzsky 99]

I started reading the results in 79 in the newspaper here in sweden, think the results were 2 day delay, i come to remember an angry guy in our class, that said maybe 81, that Gretzky got assists even if he didnt play the game First game i saw on TV i cant remeber, but i did watch sedin brothers first game in STHLM (preseason) i even met the team the night before at Cafe Opera, i made out with an older woman, and Ed Jovanski said- she could be your mother

 

[VaCaps Fan]

Yeah, coulda been early December, because I doubt it was the Blues home opener that inaugural season - my brother wouldn't have been THAT well connected.

The St. Louis arena was quite the place…