I was probably not the only one dreaming about the NHL as a kid. Playing the video games, collecting the cards, checking the results first thing in the morning (the games were always played after bedtime – a problem when growing up in Sweden). Having idols such as Peter Forsberg, Markus Näslund, Joe Sakic, and…
When heading to North America we had already made sure to have tickets for an NHL game. When in Boston, we still had almost a week to that one game, the home opener for San Jose Sharks. We had already been lucky in Montréal to get tickets for the pre-season game between Montreal Canadiens and…
Montréal might be famous for many things, but one seems to be stand out above the rest – ice-hockey. The Montreal Canadiens are one of the original six in the National Hockey League together with the teams from Boston, Chicago, Detroit, New York, and Toronto. Since the end of the Quebec Nordiques, when they moved…