I covered hockey for a few years in the late '90s and early 2000s for the 'Colorado Springs Gazette,' and I covered the Avalanche for some of the glory years. I've done hockey off and on as a sportswriter but never played it.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I will openly admit that I've never really followed hockey. Given my New England upbringing, I have always adhered to the Celtics, Patriots, Red Sox, Bruins mantra of professional sports fandom, but hockey was definitely the lowest sport on the totem pole - even when the Bruins won the Stanley Cup.
I really did love hockey. It was one of my favorite things to do.
I grew up in the Midwest, so we really didn't have much hockey going on.
It's not a sport you get famous at. If I wanted to be famous, I would have stuck with hockey.
A lot of people don't realize that I started my career in sports and was a sports reporter long before I was on television. I used to be an NBA reporter and an NHL reporter.
For as long as I can remember I wanted to be a professional hockey player.
I am a huge hockey fan.
I have a huge interest in hockey because I grew up in Canada, where it's kind of the law that you love hockey.
I never looked at hockey as work. Now that I'd finished playing, I had to go to work.
I played hockey in North Dakota growing up and watch a lot of that.