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I am heartsick. I love the Jackets and the NHL. I went to my first game on March 29 , 1972 in Boston as the Bruins beat the Minnesota North Stars 7-3.

I likely watched that game on TV. I was a rabid Bruins fan during the 1970s and I saw just about every game on Channel 38 (WSBK-TV). Started actually going to the games in 1977 and saw a lot of fights! Those were the Don Cherry days and he had a lot of intimidators on the ice...Stan Jonathon, John Wensink, Terry O'Reilly...

But the early 1970s Bruins were just awesome. Bobby Orr, Phil Esposito, Ken Hodge, Derek Sanderson, etc. If they didn't go out drinking every night, they might have won 5 or 6 Stanley Cups during that era. And if Bobby Orr didn't blow out his knee, he would have paired with Ray Bourque and they would have been winning Stanley Cups well into the 1980s.

In the early 1990s, hockey fell out of favor with me. The neutral-trap style of play and the sissification of the sport made it into a very dull game.