The excitement of a hockey game is like no other. But the feeling of watching a hockey game where your favorite team is playing against the same team they lost the Stanley Cup to last season is absolutely untouchable. Nothing can compare to that. It brought on anxiousness, excitement, tension, all different kinds of feelings and emotions, not just during the anticipation of the game, but during it, and a little bit after.Â
Last night, the NY Rangers took to Tinseltown ice to battle it out for the first time since the cup against the defending Stanley Cup champions, the LA Kings. While this game could be considered a re-match, or a second round of the Stanley Cup final, one thing is for certain that the team that played last season, and the team that played last night, were two totally different teams. Last night they were not only faster and cleaner with their plays, but they were all around on their A game, and I don’t think that anybody in LA at the Staples Center expected that.