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HockeyPrimetime.com's mission statement is, quite simply, to bring hockey to the masses.  From the young to the old, the inner city to the suburbs, everyone has a story about when they first fell in love with the game of hockey and we are committed to spreading that love of the game and bringing the greatest game on earth back into the public spotlight.

For me, it was back in the summer of 1996 during the Colorado Avalanche's first run at the Stanley Cup.  I'd never watched a single hockey game in my life to that point, despite having grown up in the hockey hotbed that is Nebraska, and by sheer luck I happened to turn the channel to ESPN right as the first game of the first round of the playoffs was beginning.  Having never watched hockey before in my life, I was confused about the rules at first, but the more I watched the more entranced I got with the game.  The speed of the skating, the ferocity of the hitting and fighting, the grace of the goaltenders, the elation of scoring a goal...All of this combined to grab hold and draw me into the sport.  That year, I watched every playoff game that I could and, during Game Four of the Stanley Cup Finals, stayed up well past when I was supposed to go to bed listening to the Avalanche defeat the Florida Panthers for the sweep.