Thanks all for your help on picking a game and prepping for it! I've got questions at the end if you want to skip me wittering on about the match.
I watched them play and I LOVED it. I barely blinked during play, I was gripped and I'm officially a hockey girl now. I was lucky enough to sit near a huge fan who told me loads through the game, although neither of us took our eyes off the game while talking.
Neither team was playing that great, they were a little all over the place, people around me didn't know why. It went to overtime and we won, probably because they heard me repeatedly screaming "COME ON BOYS GET IT TOGETHER!!!"
Alas, no fights although there was nearly one. I did see quite a few deliberate barges into the barrier and boy, Merlott is a forceful player! Him and Kempe were my favourites.
I really, really enjoyed it and I found it a really welcoming place. Nobody cared that I'm english, and knew little about the game. Everyone I spoke to was genuinely supportive about me making them my team and happy to have me on board.
I'm gonna start following hockey now, obviously particularly the kings but are there any other teams that are good to watch? Who is playing best atm?
The Colorado Avalanche are doing quite well right now. Top of the league and I think they have a 10 game win streak going on right now, or something like that.
Of course it's a long season, and we're only a little past a quarter of the way through. The year the Blues won the Cup, they were not doing great going into January. Similarly, the year the Caps won it, no one really expected them to be contenders that year.
The Oilers and the Panthers (last year's Cup finalists, which the Panthers won) aren't doing as well as you might expect right now - but a lot of playoff success is getting hot at the right time.
The hockey gods giveth and the hockey gods taketh.
Colarado looks like a really good team to watch while I'm learning the game thanks! Really appreciate the pointers thanks
I recently looked through every team community and found that the Caps are the only ones that post game day threads for each game. Now generally it's just me and one other mod commenting, so it's not crazy busy, but if you do watch a Caps game and want info on something that happens in it, feel free to ask. We generally watch or go to every game.
Unfortunately the exceptions are the games you're most likely to be watching, like tomorrow's game against the Kings, because it starts at 10:30 at night here, and my wife has to get up early, and I can't stay awake that late anyway.
Is that !caps@lemmy.world
Yep!
Followed thanks!