We love the NHL; we still think it’s the only pure professional sport left among the major ones in North America (sorry, soccer, etc.). We try to go to games when we can, for a variety of reasons—the least of which is always a chance to hear some amazing singers belt out O Canada! before the game. It’s definitely something that is worth the price of attendance, no matter where you see the matchup. And that’s a fact.

But we digress: last Saturday, we referenced our most recent visit to an NHL game, the contest in Sin City between the Toronto Maple Leafs and the Vegas Golden Knights. So, we checked off the O Canada! box with that game, of course, just as we did in December when we saw the Winnipeg Jets play in San Jose against the Sharks. What strikes us as entertaining is the fact the Knights are 0-2 while the Sharks are 2-0 with us.

Overall, Vegas is 33-20-7 in its defense of the Stanley Cup title it won last year; that’s good enough for second place in the Pacific Division. Meanwhile, we know how bad the Sharks are: 15-38-5 and in last place among the same division’s teams. We don’t need to calculate the odds of us only attending San Jose victories and Vegas losses in a season like this one. It’s not crazy improbable, but it’s also not exactly probable, either.

We find it ironic, as we covered the Sharks for 6 seasons (2009-2015) in the press box for one now-defunct website, and then we covered the Golden Knights in their first season of existence as well (2017-2018) for another website still in existence (even though all our content isn’t live anymore, sadly). We’d consider ourselves “fans” of the Maple Leafs, too, as our favorite Canadian team, but we have other loyalties, as well.

As Californians, we didn’t grow up with hockey; in fact, we never even saw a game live in person until we moved to the Midwest, and then we learned our hockey at the college level and at Joe Louis Arena in Detroit watching the Red Wings win a second consecutive Cup in 1997-1998. So, there’s a soft spot for the Wings, too, and as recent residents of the state of Washington when the Seattle Kraken were born, we care there.

It’s been a long time since we saw a game in Detroit or Toronto, and we’ve never seen one in Seattle. We’d like to get back into the routine of covering the NHL someday soon, too, as it’s such a great sport to watch and enjoy. So as we write this post on the goofiness of being 0-2 in Vegas yet 2-0 in San Jose this year, we are adding this wish to our bucket list for the upcoming years: more NHL coverage and less of everything else.

Nailed it.