Used to love watching hockey. I lived less than a mile away from the HP Pavillion in San Jose for a couple of years. We caught a lot of games there and the tickets were always pretty cheap. Not so much anymore. All said, I was never a Sharks fan though.
The playoffs are always great though, as it usually takes a different kind of team to win it all, and typically the fancypants fast skating regular season world beater finesse squads get ground down to a fine pulp.